Taking A Tumble In 1960

A Memory of Slough.

Seeing this photo bought back painful memories!  The year before this photo was taken I was in my usual rush to get from Slough Technical School to my home in Langley.  This meant changing buses in Slough and if you were very lucky you could get off one bus and straight onto another.  This day however, I saw a number 81 bus picking up riders at the Crown corner in the centre of town.  I leapt off my bus and made a mad dash across the road, no doubt giving some drivers a bit of a scare in the process, and made a wild grab for the handle at the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Unfortunately I just didn't have the strength to make that last jump onto the platform and had to let go.  That was when my foot caught in a paving stone and I must have made a spectaular sight as I rolled over and over down the pavement.  What hurt the most was the damage to my dignity as I attempted to nonchantly dust myself off and repair to the ABC (which you can see in the bottom left corner of the photo) for a cup of tea!
It's been a long time since I was in Slough, as my wife and I have lived in Canada for over 30 years.  I bet I wouldn't recognise it, but I hope by now they have fixed that paving stone! Cheers, Bill and Margaret Burrows