History
Julian was born in Worthing in 1952. From a young age, he had a passion for buses, from ‘collecting’ local routes as a pre-teen to travelling across the world in later life to track those vehicles that had been sold overseas, he spent just over 50 years photographing and logging buses around the world.
Julian was fascinated by buses and the role that they play in the social fabric of a place. He enjoyed linking services across the United Kingdom and regularly travelled large distances over a series of days entirely on local bus services. As a student, he worked as a conductor on local services in Brighton, Worthing and West Sussex and, thus he began making contacts within the transport industry as well.
Thanks to his long career in the airline industry, he was then able to travel to almost 90 countries. In almost every one, he sought out local bus services, riding and photographing them and thus creating a fascinating collection of images that display the social history of the places that he visited.
Throughout his life, he carefully logged the vehicles on which he had ridden and those that he had photographed and, in the early 90s, he digitised these records with a view to making them accessible to others who, like him, were interested in this rich history.
Following his death in 2016, it was our wish, as his family, that this database be made public and therefore this website was born.