Fascinating photo's Alex. As you know, I love buses.

Fishwick's are based in Leyland but do still run public bus services around Leyland, Chorley and the south side of Preston as well as holiday and touring coaches nationally.

The other historic Bus company in the area, The Preston Bus Co. have finally been swallowed up by the mighty Stagecoach and are no more.

Sadly their final and less than inspired twitch before they passed quietly away was to obtain bus side advertising from Blackburn Rovers.

In an attempt to fight back against the ever expanding Stagecoach who flooded the City with buses to kill off the competition, this was a move to source vital funding to keep them afloat. Unfortunately it didn't go down too well with the mostly Preston North End fans using their services. Many would rather walk than get on a bus with a Rovers badge on the side.

As it turned out they didn't have to walk far as Stagecoach were waiting in the wings to snap up all the disgruntled passengers and so another small independant bus company was consigned to history.

Sad really but Football loyalty runs deep here it seems.