Route History

[Bevan Price]

RE: Route History
St. Helens Corporation - more from the archives and a slight mystery.

"Increased service, commencing Friday 18th May 1934, St. Helens (Ormskirk Street). Newtown And Bleak Hill Smithy." Mostly hourly on weekday mornings, increasing to every 30 mins (MFSO) in the afternoon & evening (but every 20 mins MFO afternoon peak, and SO after 1810); Sunday hourly 12:15 to 18:15, then every 30 mins.

Followed by "On and from Wednesday 29th January 1936, an increased service to & from Eccleston Bleak Hill via Liverpool Road will be put into operation, and will run in conjunction with the services via Cambridge Road to Bleak Hill and Griffin Inn". So, Eccleston Bleak Hill got an hourly service via Liverpool Road and hourly via Cambridge Road (both increasing to every 30 mins FSO in the afternoon & evening), and Griffin Inn had a 30 mins service via Cambridge Road.

The Liverpool Road service ran from Sefton Place (Baldwin St. Co-op Stores), via Ormskirk St., Bridge St., Liverpool Rd., Eccleston St., Knowsley Rd., Holme Rd., Mill Brow & Millbrook Lane. But now the mystery - what was the unspecified route via Cambridge Road ? Fare stages were shown as Fenton St., Devon St., then Dunriding Lane or Ellison Drive, so at a guess I would suggest Ormskirk St., Duke St., Boundary Rd., Horace St., Cambridge Rd., Knowsley Rd., and then as above.
Is there anyone with (very) elderly relatives who might remember when buses ran along Cambridge Road ?