In ten years there has been little change on High Street. The bus is new, however. 101 was the first of ten forward-entrance PD3/5s which showed a lot of the influence of the new General Manager, Harry Taylor, in details such as destination blinds and also saw a complete change in the interior trim. The Stardrops advert clearly visible was a very common sight on Oldham buses at the time. Of the buildings behind the bus only the Hilton Arcade survives in a modernised form, together with the upper storeys of Flacks's which survives as part of the later Woolworth store (at the time of this photograph Woolworth's was across the road). Of course even the later Woolworth's is no longer with us.

Photograph by courtesy of The Bus Archive/Roy Marshall