B&W gallery: Three wrecks

The title may be a little unfair, but the old girl in perfect alignment on the far right, slumped

against the wall waiting for a bus, was not in the best of health or stamina, much like these

old petrol pumps outside a disused garage on the Snowdonia road just outside Caernarfon.

I thought of retouching them back to their original spotless nick, leaving the ironic wreck of

the shed behind them, but then thought better of it. 'Twerly' was a nickname allocated to all

those old-age pensioners, sorry - senior citizens, who in London would try to get on the

buses before their 'free-from' time of 9:30 am. "Am I too early?" The name sort of stuck,

but I don't know if it ever reached this far corner of North Wales, and I don't know how

'Twerly' would translate into their impenetrable Welsh language up here either.

The title may be a little unfair, but the old girl in perfect alignment on the far right, slumped

against the wall waiting for a bus, was not in the best of health or stamina, much like these old

petrol pumps outside a disused garage on the Snowdonia road just outside Caernarfon. I

thought of retouching them back to their original spotless nick, leaving the ironic wreck of the

shed behind them, but then thought better of it. 'Twerly' was a nickname allocated to all those

old-age pensioners, sorry - senior citizens, who in London would try to get on the buses before

their 'free-from' time of 9:30 am. "Am I too early?" The name sort of stuck, but I don't know if

it ever reached this far corner of North Wales, and I don't know how 'Twerly' would translate

into their impenetrable Welsh language up here either.

Three wrecks, one twerly