More on the mini Stockwell Bus Garage

John Kingsway, whose skill and dedication produced the fantastic mini version of Stockwell Bus Garage, writes with more information:

Unfortunately Stockwell is a tricky one to build with all those curves - I did it as a challenge thinking if I could do that I could do anything.

The sign - my version is the original! - I tend to remember the buses in the classic London Transport days before privatisation.

You may not be aware that Stockwell garage was built to house new buses that in turn replaced the trams. Walworth Garage was another built on the site of the old Camberwell tram shed.

Because of postwar steel shortages, concrete was used for Stockwell, otherwise it would have been a boring box shape design (like Brixton?) I understand the building is listed (class two) so hopefully it will be looked after.

If the war had not happened the trams would have been replaced by trolleybuses (powered by electricity from overhead wires) with no diesel fumes. But in the 1950s, wires were an extra complication and diesel oil was cheap and would last forever!

The trams, which tended to run down the middle of the roads on their rails were blamed for traffic congestion. The South London Press campaigned vigorously to get rid of them proclaiming that when the trams have gone there will be no more traffic jams in South London.

Did it work??