WHIPPET & WARBOYS

 We start this post with a look at the buses of St. Ives in Cambridgeshire. The town used to be the territory of Eastern Counties.

Stagecoach gained most of the services upon privatisation.

Then, Stagecoach had to sell their fleet to Sovereign, only to take over again

later. This photo was taken in 2009.

The other bus company was (and still is) Whippet Coaches.

In the last post, we only saw one pub, so let's look at a few more. First, just out of the town centre, a free house called the Aviator.

The Royal Oak has featured in many issues of the Good Beer Guide.

The Floods Tavern, an Elgood's tied house.

Now for some Greene King (or a guest ale) at the Nelson's Head.

Finally, a great free house, the Oliver Cromwell.

We now leave St. Ives behind and soon come to Bluntisham, where more refreshment is available at the White Hart.

About a mile away is the village of Earith, where experiments were conducted with a tracked hovercraft system. Learn more here. There is also a lock on the Great Ouse.

To the north is Somersham, where track on the former GN & GE Joint line was lifted in the early 1970s.

Two miles to the west is Pidley, where there's a good pub called the Mad Cat.

The small town of Warboys is our next stop. It was served by the only intermediate station on the ex GER Ramsey East branch. Learn more here. A photo in my collection, original photographer not known.

There are two pubs in Warboys, the Royal Oak and the White Hart, both of them still open, according to my research.

So, I'll leave you in Warboys for now. Find out more about ur continuing journey tomorrow.