Grotton is still a bustling village but James Shannon's grocers shop has been gone for some years now. They moved in when this new block of shops opened in the early sixties, whilst at the other end of the row was Stanley Ogden. His butcher's shop had formerly been at Mumps and he brought the clock with its "Meat Under the Clock" legend with him from that site. The business has since been sold by the family but still trades under the old name. 5102, seen here on 17th August 1973, was one of nine of the ten Oldham PD3s which passed to SELNEC. The other was, by the time of the take-over, just a carcass, having been damaged beyond repair when it turned over on West Street in 1967. I once travelled on one of these in service down Station Road (to the right beyond the zebra crossing), then up Hillside Avenue and along Mildred Avenue to avoid an accident that had blocked the road just beyond the junction. Those are not roads on which you would expect to find a bus!