Transport

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	Pony and Trap outside the Bell Inn - probably early 20th century		Delivery underway from Arnold's Central Bakery - before 1912, when Frederick Aston bought the business
	Sheepwash Farm lorry - 1920s		Early lorry belonging to the Boston family
	A newer lorry for the Boston's at Court Farm		Aston's Delivery Van with driver, Ted Leedham - probably during early 50s
	Babies had their transport too - a pram photographed at Rock Farm - late 20s		A 1930s model pram
	Private car outside the Inge house at Whittington Hurst		Deakin family car - 1936
	Friends of the Pearce brothers used to enjoy meeting to compare cars in the builders yard at The Hawthorns after WW2		In the drive at the side of the Hawthorns
	Boston family car outside Boot Farm - Aug 1954		Thomas Linney ran his taxi service from Rose Cottage - pictured here probably in 1950s. He had been chauffeur to Col. Seckham as a young man after WW1.
	Charlie Boston and his schoolfriend outside Boot Farm on their way to school - 1930s		Boston sisters on their way home from the Friary School - 1940s
	A scene from Back Lane - 1954		A bicycle for two - Charlie Boston and his young daughter - 1963
	Whittington's most novel form of transport - "Gunner" Moore on the bull, Wolverdington Lion - 1972	Does anyone have a old photo of a bus in or around Whittington?	The first Lichfield motor bus, running to Whittington, was introduced in 1913 by Jones & Co., a firm of motor-car hirers in Bird Street - source: Lichfield Volume of the Victoria County History Staffordshire