Richard Walter photographed and observed the buses and drivers going through the paces at the recent 2023 Bus Driver of the Year competition in a very sunny and hot Blackpool.
The streets in Blackpool centre were eerily deserted at 7am in the morning of Sunday 3 September. The night before had seen hordes of people descend on the promenade to enjoy the splendour of the world famous illuminations which had just been switched on the Friday before, ride on the famous illuminated tram tours, play the traditional arcade games and enjoy fish and chips, ice cream and candy floss. What with it being the last weekend of school holidays, families had rocked into the early morning in glorious late summer weather and most were still asleep in their beds at this unearthly early time of a Sunday morning.
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