Brighton and Hove Buses sex?

[lincolnshire]

Visiting Brighton the other day and looking at all there buses, are all the buses named just after men? as upto now thats all I have ever seen.

Anyone seen any buses named after women then?

 

[Mr Spock]

Visiting Brighton the other day and looking at all there buses, are all the buses named just after men? as upto now thats all I have ever seen.

Anyone seen any buses named after women then?

Looking through the latest list I make it 46 are named after women.

 

[trentside]

I can see plenty of female names on their official fleetlist;

http://history.buses.co.uk/history/currentfleet/welcome.htm

Just some examples, and there are a few more;

619 Margaret Bondfield
621 Ivy Compton-Burnett
627 Patricia Harding
634 Dorothy Stringer
635 Angela Thirkell
643 Victoria Lidiard
655 Elizabeth Allan
656 Dame Henrietta Barnett
658 Clementina Black
659 Helen Boyle
661 Dame Millicent Fawcett
666 Eleanor Marx
667 Dame Clara Butt
671 Vanessa Bell
677 Elisabeth Howard
688 Elsie And Doris Waters
701 Carol Barnes
709 Maudie Ottaway
708 Daisy and Violet Hilton
714 Sarah Forbes Bonetta
719 Elizabeth Fry
731 Hester Thrale
820 Dame Flora Robson
902 Fanny Burney
912 Dame Anita Roddick
914 Daisy Noakes

 

[BestWestern]

Wasn't sure what to expect after seeing the thread title!

I'm sure it happens, frequently!

 

[trentside]

Wasn't sure what to expect after seeing the thread title!

I'm sure it happens, frequently!

I'd thought the same, or something more like this;

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/apr/04/schools.uk6

 

[theblackwatch]

Wasn't sure what to expect after seeing the thread title!

I'm sure it happens, frequently!

Nor me, so I thought I'd best take a look in case it needed moderating!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I'd thought the same, or something more like this;

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/apr/04/schools.uk6

I thought that Ashbourne was "above that sort of thing"..

 

[ainsworth74]

Nor me, so I thought I'd best take a look in case it needed moderating!

It would seem this thread has attracted I great deal of moderator attention as I came along for the same reason!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It would seem this thread has attracted I great deal of moderator attention as I came along for the same reason!

You may very well think that, I couldn't possibly comment..

 

[455driver]

It would seem this thread has attracted I great deal of moderator attention as I came along for the same reason!

Freudian slip or deliberate?
And there was me thinking you were all just being perverts!

 

[Hassocks5489]

Don't forget this one: she masqueraded as a man so she could join the army, and lived a very long life indeed! If you have Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online access (most library cards give this), you can read her bio here... http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13132

 

[lincolnshire]

Wasn't sure what to expect after seeing the thread title!

I'm sure it happens, frequently!

Certainly made all of you look and it also got the reply I wanted, there are buses name after women on the streeets of Brighton and Hove. will ahve to see if I spot one next time I am down there.

 

[Condor7]

Nor me, so I thought I'd best take a look in case it needed moderating!

Yeah, Yeah