London Buses-Routemasters at Finchley & Muswell Hill Garages+Routes 43 & 134, 1986 

My old family owned bus RML2271 is in this near the end of the video, being driven into Finchley Garage. She was under the ownership of the Laurie family from December 2004 until July 2011. I was her driver and registered keeper during this time.

I would love to go back to finchley as it was for 1day say in the 70s..the gaumont..open air pool..the bus terminus and lots more..happy days!😊

Finchley is where the late great Terry-Thomas came from. RIP Terry, and also Bob Grant and Reg Varney from On The Buses. Thanks for the laughter.

1986 - the year I started at MH, and stayed there until it's closure in 1990. This video is an absolute gem.

Great video, - brings back so many memories! .... my sister-in-law was the first woman bus driver in North London, and the 43 to London Bridge was her regular route. I grew up in MH so used 134 and 43 buses a lot....

Wow, this footage is AMAZING...Finchley was my old stomping ground, I grew up there, and have very fond memories of the area, which has changed ALOT. This brings it all back - remember both garages well, I think they both closed at around the same time in the early 90s. You've managed to catch several other buildings in the North Finchley/Kingsway area which have also long since gone - most notably, the Gaumont Cinema, the Ford Perrys dealership & a small enclave of buildings right on the corner of Kingsway/Ballards Lane, one of them being Mann Egerton car dealers, which was defunct in the very year this was filmed - 1986. Of course, great to see all these lovely AEC RM/RMLs plying the 13, 43, 134s...thank you so much for sharing this. Anything from this area is of significant interest, especially from the 80s.

Use to live in finchley back in the 80s in squires lane and caught routemasters every day to barnet great memories and content!!!!!

I was 17 in 1986. Ah, I miss the old world!

I used to live in the block of flats at 3:43 on hampden Road N10, and have Great memories of the buses leaving the station. It’s now a housing development but has the old wooden fence running along still and the white steel gate which bars Sydney road. Amazing video.

I used to ride these to school and back every day between 1974-77 :)

That shot near the end with the buses coming in brought a smile to my face.

I love these videos! Thanks for having the wherewithall to have done them!

I loved the sound of the Routemaster as well as it’s stunning design, but another thing is the smell of the interior was always of sweets and tobacco!

Thank you so much for posting this. It's provided me with valuable information as i'm taking my Routemaster over the 43 this Sunday as it used to operate this route out of Finchley garage between 1983 - 1985.

Used to live in Woodberry Gardens so remember the bus garage really well, thanks for that

I've lived in Archway for 30+ years now, and this is golden footage. Many thanks!

Another good film. I lived briefly at Muswell Hill in the mid 70's and there were still RT's about. Have to say the external condition of the RM's had by this time deteriorated. Reminds me of the last days of RT's in London service.

grand old buses remember them 😀

Great vids. Brings back memories of those jump on-jump off buses, getting you there a lot quicker...

Back then you can hear birds cherping not any more

Whats interesting is the rear number blind in latter years had the destination via points as well

There was an event last week which commerorated the closure of Muswell Hill garage, and a couple of years ago the same thing for East Finchley. Its a shame really :( wonder if some of those routemasters in the video have been preserved. Nice video too, nice to see them in public service as i am too young to have riden on them in public service myslef.

Nice

1930s stock at the end. I remember a couple of them being used on the northern line in 1986 for some strange reason.

Any more MH stuff? 😊

No hi vis jackets either; I wonder what they thought they were doing with the buses if you haven’t read it already; Privatising London’s Buses is written by a former manager.

Do you have any more photos or Videos of MH and any fleet lists run sheets, schedules, plates, bus parking plan perhaps?

Good video of old RMs on 43 and 134 it's a shame both those routes had good buses like presidents and older tridents e400s untill recently replaced by cardboard plastic and soon electric BYDs and optares

I can see that meter in the garage, you don’t see that anymore. At around 1:49

They sound very health

Got any of the routemasters working for United Counties in Bedford and Corby, would like to see some footage.

When PUBLIC transport was run for the benefit of the traveling public.Not for profit.