Elstree Studios
The Buses Return (true but spooky)
 
 ON THE BUSES 
 Guest Book & Ring Tone 
 Photos from the event 
 Fans photos from the event 
 Fans emails about the event 
 Elstree 80 years of movies 
 Elstree and Borehamwood Times 
 CANTEEN SHOP OPEN 
 GARAGE SALE update 1st June 
 The Creators Ronald Wolfe and 
 Ronald Chesney Hon. Members 
 Stuart Allen Producer / Director 
 Bryan Izzard (Director) 
 Stan Butler, Reg Varney 
 Buses fanclub meets Reg Varney 
 Reg Varney opens 1st ATM 
 Reg Varney article 
 Reg photo album 
 Jack Harper, Bob Grant 
 Bob Grant photos 
 Blakey (Stephen Lewis) 
 Panto 1982 Blakey 
 Stephen/Blakey photos 
 Stephen Lewis interview 
 Stephen Lewis 
 Mum Series One 
 Mum (Doris Hare) 
 Arthur (Michael Robbins) 
 Arthur /Michael photos 
 Olive (Anna Karen) 
 Anna photo gallery 
 Terry Duggan SAD UPDATE MAY 
 The Clippies NEW 28.03.08 
 Guest Stars Wendy Richards 
 Pat Coombs 
 Michael Sheard 
 Kate Williams 
 Arthur Mullard & Queenie Watts 
 Wilfred Brambell (Steptoe) 
 Henry Mcgee 
 GEOFF UNWIN (hon member) 
 Harry Fielder (hon. member) 
 Douglas Mounce 
 quick episode guide 
 Series One 
 Series Two 
 Series Three 
 Series Four 
 Series Five 
 Series Six 
 Series Seven 
 Episode locations 
 Why ON THE BUSES ? 
 YOUR favourite moments 
 fans emails FROM THE UK 
 UK fans emails 2nd page 
 emails FROM AROUND THE WORLD 
 ON THE BUSES dvd page NEW 
 ON THE BUSES movie 
 Mutiny On The Buses 
 Holiday On The Buses 
 Movie posters 
 Elstree Studios 
 Depots & locations, 
 Locations info on the movies 
 Movie locations continued 2 
 Movie Locations 3 
 Movie locations 4 
 Had someone seen the future? 
 Holiday ON THE BUSES locations 
 Holiday movie stills 
 Pre Pontins Event 
 Pontins On The Buses Plaque 
 PONTINS 1971 
 PAUL BURTON page update April08 
 Buses & Vehicles from the show 
 ON THE BUSES play 1987 Canada 
 ON THE BUSES play A New Life 2 
 Petition and polls 
 Last years film event 
 Look In Comics 
 Magazine Covers 
 theatre posters etc 
 Panto Oh yes it is 
 DVD & VIDEO COVERS 
 dvd & video covers 2 
 Look In comic strip 
 TRIVIA PAGE, 
 Other ON THE BUSES WEB SITES 
 other DEPOT NEWS bus related 
 Lotsa luck TV Show OTB spin off 
 Rag Trade on dvd 
 Begger My Neighbour 
 Links to other favourite sites 
 Fav Links page 2 
 BUS LINKS 
 Real life ON THE BUSES 
 ReaL life ON THE BUSES 2 
 Farwell Routemaster 
 Buses party 
 Stars and Charity 
 TV and Theatre Links 
 
 

Sadly the part of Elstree used as a bus depot frontage in the ON THE BUSES movie is no longer. Built on the land is now a 24hour supermarket.

However by a twist of fate the land is also used by buses as a terminus and has several bus stops and shelters.



Even more quirky is that in the movie after the bus ends up going down the motorway and getting back late to the Depot, an elderly lady gets of an says "3 hours on this bus and I only wanted to go to Tesco."

The place she got of is now Tesco's.






 


A bus driver taking a break in his bus on Tesos land, the buildings in the background are Elstree Studios.

It gets stranger!

The bus in the picture below is operated by a company called Sullivan Buses. I had a chat to the driver who just happened to mention Sullivan's hire out buses for filming. They have hired out buses for Holby, The Bill, Doctor Who and other tv programmes.

They also have a Routemaster in their fleet.

It gets Spookier, unlike many bus companies their web sites has links to other sites of interest to bus enthusiasts. They even have buses for sale on the web site.

To see Sullivan Buses web site click on the picture below.



 

Here is part of an email from the owner of Sullivan Buses.
Excellent! Great Fan of the old On the Buses shows/films. Good to pick out all the locations.
 
The bus in your picture is our ELV1 which was on last Christmases edition of Dr Who. It has done several movies and was featured in Derren Browns recent Trick or Treat series (see YouTube clip) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkx9uPQcfY
 
We supply a number of buses for film and TV. Our most popular is DN02SUL which is a single deck bus normally used on local Borehamwood services. It has special destination blinds for Holby City & East Enders. Its done a few episodes of The Bill and a small armful of commercials. Yesterday it was out filming another TV commercial in Wokingham.  
 
 
 
Look forward to checking your site out again soon.




 



 








Here is a front view of Elstree Studios present day


But what is this lurking behind the buildings on Elstree Film Studios plot?



Notice the old fashione zebra crossing in the picture on the left. This is the other side of it