On an English summer’s day a coach-load of culture seekers leave Stratford-upon-Avon for a day tour of the Cotswolds in the comfort of a Weymann bodied Leyland of Timpsons, a 1956 model only 7.6″ wide which helped on the narrow lanes encountered in the Cotswolds.

In the background is the town’s bus station and coach park a stones throw from the gently flowing Avon with graceful swans and weeping willows, a perfect backdrop for the National Shakespeare Theatre on its grassy banks where the works of the great Bard are performed daily.