30233 is on Manchester Road in Mossley passing the Friendship Inn. The road that goes off here (which was once served by the 154A/353) was once known as Smith Hill but is now known as Waggon Road, presumably after another pub only a few doors away known as the Waggon and Horses, which closed as long ago as 1908 and is now demolished. 30233 was part of the original fleet of Walthamstow Citybus, as their 153, an operation based at Northumberland Park garage. This later became part of Capital Citybus which was in turn bought by First. This bus was transferred to Manchester in 2001.