IN THE 1950s the Andover Bus Station was constructed on Bridge Street where the current site of the Iceland shop is today.

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It was a busy station, with car ownership was lower than today, with frequent services offered to surrounding towns as well as villages and small rural communities.

Wilts & Dorset and Hants & Dorset buses operated here and also timetabled coaches called here, including Royal Blue Coaches to the West Country.

Excursion coaches to seaside towns with shopping and pantomime trips too, started and ended here.

The bus station had a bookings office for coach and excursion tickets, a café and a kiosk.

The following images, with the exception of the black and white picture, are from the collection of Jeffery Saunders.

The Andover Advertiser is always interested in photographs of yesteryear depicting town and village life down the years.

We are especially interested in colour images from living memory and especially before the down redevelopment in the 1960s.

If you have any interesting photographs that you are willing to lend or give, please send them to Derek Kane, 2b Union Street, Andover, SP10 1PA or e-mail derek.kane@andoveradvertiser.co.uk