0:00:21 > 0:00:24This story belongs to Seren
0:00:24 > 0:00:25and her Bampi Alan.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Bampi is another word for grandad.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37It's a tiny tale about Bampi Alan's life and his passion for old buses.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Wee!
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Higher!
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Hold on tight, now, Seren.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51But now it's time for Bampi Alan
0:00:51 > 0:00:53to take Seren on a journey of discovery
0:00:53 > 0:00:57and share his stories of when he was younger.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02He's showing Seren his collection of old toy buses.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Here's my bus collection, all different sizes.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09How many buses do you think I've got here?
0:01:09 > 0:01:11A couple of hundred.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16There may be. We'll count 'em Monday and find out how many's here.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Do you still have your first toy bus?
0:01:22 > 0:01:26The first one I ever had? Yeah, I've got that. Where is it, now?
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Here it is. It's a bit battered now, of course.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33The tyres are gone and whatever. It's old like me, see?
0:01:33 > 0:01:38And that cost about 10p when that was new.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Which one is your favourite bus?
0:01:40 > 0:01:44My favourite one is this one here, this orange one.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46That was bought from a shop
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and was specially painted up for me in these colours.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I love this bus. It's excellent.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Why are some of the buses in boxes?
0:01:55 > 0:01:57I like to keep them in the box
0:01:57 > 0:02:02so people don't play around with them and scratch them and things.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05What's your favourite bus in my collection?
0:02:05 > 0:02:06- Blue.- The blue one?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Because it looks really cool.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25When I was little, it was fun to go up to the bus stop
0:02:25 > 0:02:27and wait for the bus to come
0:02:27 > 0:02:30and try and guess which bus was coming today.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34We'd get on the bus and the real excitement would be going upstairs
0:02:34 > 0:02:35and sitting at the front
0:02:35 > 0:02:38and seeing the people going past and the traffic.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43A bus is a great way of getting lots of people from one place to another.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47A long, long time ago, people would get to places on horseback.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49After that, groups of people travelled
0:02:49 > 0:02:52on a horse-drawn carriage called a coach.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55And later came trams, that ran on tracks, like this one,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58trains, and then buses.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Look at these old buses and the people waiting at the bus stop.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05There are lots of buses and hardly any cars in this old film
0:03:05 > 0:03:09because long ago, people would travel by bus all the time.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12My earliest memory of going on the buses would be
0:03:12 > 0:03:14going down the town with my mother.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I suppose I'd have been five or six.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21In those days, we used to we used to have red double-decker buses
0:03:21 > 0:03:24with a conductor on and a driver at the front,
0:03:24 > 0:03:29and the conductor would come around and give you a ticket.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Ah, that's the ticket!
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Let's find out what Bampi Alan and Seren
0:03:35 > 0:03:37will be getting up to today.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52How do you want to go to the bus museum? Walk, taxi or bus?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54By a bus, of course!
0:03:54 > 0:03:56- What type of bus?- A bendy bus?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59OK, let's go and catch a bendy bus.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10A bendy bus is two single decker buses which are joined together
0:04:10 > 0:04:13so that more passengers can fit on at the same time.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Some bendy buses can carry up to 100 people at a time. Wow!
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Good morning, how are you today?
0:04:22 > 0:04:23All right, how are you?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Where would you like to go?
0:04:25 > 0:04:29I would like two returns to the Bus Museum, please.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- There it is.- There's your ticket.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37- Thank you.- Thank you very much. - Thank you very much.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Were your buses hard to drive?
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Oh, very hard to drive, yes.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47This bus is automatic,
0:04:47 > 0:04:51so he puts it into gear and the bus does the rest.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54All the gears change on their own.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59The buses I used to drive, you had to change gear with a big handle.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Have you ever been on a bendy bus before?
0:05:01 > 0:05:05I've never been on a bendy bus before, I must admit.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07So, today is a nice treat, isn't it?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09I've been on a bendy bus.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Have you? Where did you go?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14To the sea.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Our museum started when myself and a few friends
0:05:26 > 0:05:28decided that we'd have our own bus museum.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31So, we looked for a space that was big enough
0:05:31 > 0:05:34to hold the nine buses that we had at the time.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36We found this space in Hafod in Swansea.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39From that start of nine buses,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42we have now got nearly 60 buses in our bus museum.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44How exciting!
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Bampi Alan and some of his friends actually own the Bus Museum
0:05:47 > 0:05:49and he's taking Seren to see it.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51A museum is a place you can visit
0:05:51 > 0:05:55to see lots of different collections of things.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Bampi Alan's old buses are very old
0:05:57 > 0:06:00and seeing old objects helps people understand
0:06:00 > 0:06:03how things looked a long time ago.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24I used to drive that bus when I was 21 years old.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25I like that big red bus.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29You like the big red one? This is a little short one. See it?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31This one is half the size of that one.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Do you think it's the baby of that one?- Yeah.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Maybe not!
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- That's even bigger. - That's an even bigger bus.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42A big, enormous bus, that, isn't it?
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Here we are, Seren.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46This old bus is the same age as me.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50- It looks old and messy. - What, like me, you mean?- Yeah.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51That's nice, isn't it?!
0:06:51 > 0:06:55What we do with these old buses, as we did with mine,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57is what we call restore them.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58What does restore mean?
0:06:58 > 0:07:02It means that we get new parts, and some old parts,
0:07:02 > 0:07:05put them on this bus to make it look as good as new.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Wow, I've never seen so many red buses at the same time.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17This is a very old bus. We used this bus for your mammy's wedding.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18That was a special day.
0:07:18 > 0:07:23It took all her wedding guests and Mummy and Daddy to the reception
0:07:23 > 0:07:26and it brought them back home again afterwards.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Look at the old-fashioned curtains and seating.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Buses are great for getting lots of people
0:07:37 > 0:07:39to the same place at the same time -
0:07:39 > 0:07:43like weddings, football matches and school.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47They're perfect for showing off our Olympic heroes and their medals
0:07:47 > 0:07:52and they can also be used as restaurants, like this one.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16Oh, look, this looks like it could be Bampi Alan's very own bus.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17I bought this bus
0:08:17 > 0:08:20because I used to drive it before your mother was born.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24- Would you like to sit in the cab? - Yes, please.- OK, then.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Hup!
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Mind your head.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33- There we are. Do we like that?- Yes. - What do you notice in there?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- The steering wheel is big. - The enormous wheel.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39This is the handbrake, to stop from rolling away.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42On the other side is to change the gears.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44What are the pedals for?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46The pedals make it stop and go.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49The horn is on the end of that lever there. Press it.
0:08:49 > 0:08:50HORN BEEPS
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Bampi Alan used to work as a bus conductor, then a bus driver.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Look at this very old film of bus conductresses
0:09:01 > 0:09:04doing the same job as Bampi Alan did.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07In the old days, the bus driver sat inside a cab
0:09:07 > 0:09:08and couldn't sell tickets,
0:09:08 > 0:09:12so a bus conductor travelled on the bus to give out tickets.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14This is the ticket machine I used.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17This is how it works - to make a ticket come out,
0:09:17 > 0:09:20first, you set the numbers to see what people want.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24If it is a single to town, they just go like that and like that,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26for the price that they want.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28This one's for one and ninepence.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33OK? You hold the little button, push it forward and out comes a ticket.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36You rip it off and give them a ticket like that.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Your turn, Seren.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Oh, what a great conductor's uniform!
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Tickets, please.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- I'd like a ticket to town, please. - OK.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50- How much is it? - £1, please.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54- Thank you, very much. - Thank you. Bye-bye.- Bye-bye.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11- What do you think of this bus? - It's cool because it's got no roof.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13We used to go to the seaside on a bus like this.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- Do you want to go to the seaside? - Yes, please.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- Shall we go now? - Yes.- OK.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- Where do you want to sit?- That side.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- You want to sit that side? - You sit there.- I'll sit on this side.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- Do you like this bus better than the bendy bus?- Yeah.- Why?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Because it's got an open top.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Do you think it always had an open top?- Um... Yeah.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49For the first year of its life it had a top on, like normal buses,
0:10:49 > 0:10:50but they took the top off
0:10:50 > 0:10:53so that people could go to the seaside like this today
0:10:53 > 0:10:55and see the sun.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02This place is called the Mumbles and this is the beach Bampi Alan
0:11:02 > 0:11:06used to come to many years ago, when he was a little boy.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Going to the seaside is fun.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14A trip to the seaside in an open top bus.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- What's missing?- Ice cream! - Ice cream.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Two ice creams, please.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21I know how to say ice cream in Welsh.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Go on, then, say it.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Ga'i hufen ia, os gwelwch yn dda.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Thank you.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Oh, Bampi, you are silly!
0:11:45 > 0:11:49I love being beside the seaside, do you?
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Thank you, Bampi, for telling me stories about your buses.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01No problem, Seren. Can you remember the special things we did together?
0:12:01 > 0:12:06I liked it when I was a bus conductress with the ticket machines.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09You showed me your toy bus collection.
0:12:09 > 0:12:14I saw your first ever toy bus that your mummy gave you.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19We went on a local bendy bus and you told me stories about your bus.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25I sat in the driver's cab of your bus
0:12:25 > 0:12:27and I got all dressed up
0:12:27 > 0:12:31and I became a bus conductress, selling tickets.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37We looked at an old messy bus that you are restoring
0:12:37 > 0:12:39and it's as old as you.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42We saw the special bus
0:12:42 > 0:12:46that took the guests to Mummy and Daddy's wedding.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52We went on a lovely bus with no roof to the seaside.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58And we had the best ice cream in the whole of Wales!
0:12:59 > 0:13:02And what was your favourite part of the day?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Going on the open top bus.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07What was your favourite part of the day?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Spending my time with you.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16What a fabulous heap of fun!
0:13:16 > 0:13:19That was Seren and Bampi Alan's tiny tale
0:13:19 > 0:13:22about Bampi Alan's love of buses.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Now that Bampi Alan has shared his story with Seren,
0:13:26 > 0:13:31it's time for Seren to start her own story.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Do you know someone with a story to share?