Edgware Bus Depot In The 1950s

A Memory of Edgware.

I lived in Hatch End, and went to school in Pinner where one of my school friends, Andy Butler (where are you now Andy?) revealed he collected bus numbers! Until then, I had never thought much about buses as I was used to getting the usual red London Transport double decker bus on route 209 to school each day. Andy explained, that there were such things as bus garages and that the garage in Edgware still used old fashioned coaches. And so it was, that he persuaded me on several summer evenings to go for very long cycle rides from our homes, in the Pinner area, down to Edgware just so he could jot down the numbers in his notebook!
It turned out to be quite fascinating, as Andy pointed out to me, the old "TD" type buses on route 240A from Edgware to Mill Hill East Station. I learned that the 'TD' class of bus entered service with London Transport in the 1940's. He called them Leyland Tigers, and said they only seated 30 passengers. They looked seriously old fashioned like something I only saw in black and white films! The bus garage staff chased Andy and me out of the depot several times on our visits.
We must have cycled round trips of something like, twenty miles on those light summer evenings when we had so much energy, as thirteen year olds!