THERE are probably not many people who would look at a modern bus and think it beautiful.

But the buses that used to carry people around Herefordshire were certainly a much better sight!

Members of our We Grew Up in Hereford Facebook group have been reminiscing on the buses that they remember from their younger years after Tony Verry shared this stunning picture.

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It shows a Hastelows coach sitting next to another well-known firm, Yeomans' office in Hereford's Country Bus Station. 

Hereford's old county hospital is pictured on the other side of the wall.

Yeomans is still a name most of us in Herefordshire will be familiar with, with the company still running plenty of services to this day, alongside coach tours to locations further afield.

But both Hastelows bus services and this view of the County Hospital are a thing of the past, with Hastelows, which was based in Cowleigh Road, Malvern, no longer running services in Herefordshire, and the old hospital replaced with the new County Hospital.

The picture has sparked plenty of memories, with Barbara Morgan, who lived in Kilpeck and went to Kingstone school remembering her school runs.

"The guy who owned the Three Horseshoes at Allensmore had a bus like this and did a school run to Kingstone," she said.

And Graham Addis had similar memories.

"I remember a guy called Les Gardiner had a Bedford coach similar to this one," he said.

"Used to do the school runs in the St Weonards area as well as seaside daytrips."

Neil Walker remembered his Yeomans driver uncle Phil behind the wheel of a similar bus. 

"When I played for Fownhope we'd travel to away games on a blue coach the same as this, nicknamed the Dinmore Flyer," he said. 

David Morris said it looked like his old school bus from the 1960s, while Keith Phillips remembered riding in a bus like it from Kingstone to Hereford for the grand fare of nine pence for a half single.