Blown up from a contemporary photograph of the Whit Friday marches is this view by the Clarence Hotel showing a Tilling-Stevens double-decker of a type seen more closely in the 153 collection. The bus will have been operating from Roaches tram terminus and running to Diggle. The turn it is making would have been much more difficult a few years previously as there used to be a triangular walled garden in front of the pub which made the junction a very pronounced 'vee'. It is thought that the introduction of bus services may have been a reason for its removal. The roof signs on the pub were a typical feature of Gartside's houses.

Photograph courtesy of Peter Fox.