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By Alan Stroud An Enterprise bus in the 1930 s, the very same model that 19 year-old Fred Bull had the misfortune to be conductor on. The company, run by the Wavell family, was bought out by Southern Vectis in 1951. UNTIL 1931, the Royal Pier Hotel stood at the bottom of Union Street in Ryde, roughly where today’s roundabout now sits. Consequently, traffic coming down Union Street had to navigate a sharp right-hand turn into what was then Pier Street. With the arrival of the motor car the turning became notorious as an accident blackspot and was the subject of many complaints to the council, all of which were ignored ­ until events one afternoon in March, 1929.

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