EVERYONE has a good bus story.

High jinks on the school bus; trips into town with your pals; mini-dramas in the Scottish weather on the way to work – maybe you even found romance on board the number 23….

Our Thanks for the Memories series, which invites readers to send in their recollections and photographs of Glasgow in days gone by, is celebrating vintage buses this week.

The Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust will be opening its Bridgeton Bus Garage to the public on several Sundays during spring and summer this year, including April 7, May 5 and June 2. Visit http://www.gvvt.org for more information.

Visitors will be able to wander round and look at what goes on behind the scenes, and experience travel in Glasgow, 1960s-style, on one of the Trust’s beautifully preserved Glasgow Corporation buses.

There will be displays from the Trust’s fascinating archives, charting more than 100 years of Glasgow’s transport history and the GVVT’s Leyland Leopard single decker will be parked up in the yard for those who want to see what it’s like to sit behind the wheel of a vintage bus…

The Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust was set up in 2002, and a year later moved into its current home in the Bridgeton Bus Garage on Fordneuk Street.

It is now home to more than 100 buses and commercial vehicles, many of which have been fully restored and its regular open days are a huge draw.

At one of our previous Thanks for the Memories library drop-in events, we met Pat Black, nee McCowat, who was one of Glasgow’s first women bus drivers in 1975.

She told us how her career move was inspired by her late mother’s role in the First and Second World Wars.

“My mother, Ann McFarlane, was born in 1899, and in the First World War when she was 18, she drove trams,” recalled Pat, who grew up in Partick.

“After the war, she was made redundant, like many of the women who did the men’s jobs while they were away fighting.

“But in the Second World War, she went back and became a conductress. Her badge number was 1947.”

Pat’s grandfather James also drove trams, around 1900, in Partick, before the burgh was part of Glasgow city.

“I was a conductress on the buses and got paid off – but needs must, so I went to the driving school and learned to be a bus driver,” she said.

“I was the only woman in the garage, but I was quite mouthy back then, so they very quickly realised they’d get short shrift if they gave me any problems.”

She said: “The public were mostly lovely to me – except for one time, when I stopped to let an old chap on my number 20 bus.

“He couldn’t see very well, so he was peering at the number for ages as I approached the stop. I stopped and shouted out – are ye coming oan?”

Pat laughed: “He suddenly realised who was speaking, and yelled, ‘a wummin’ driver? You’ve got to be joking – naw, I’m no comin’ oan…

“So I drove off !”

Pat shared photographs of a bus she used to drive in the 70s, which is now in Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust’s garage in Bridgeton, and pictures of her mother in her tram uniform.

Did you work on the buses in Glasgow? Do you have fond memories of trips around the city? We would love to hear from you.

Through our regular library drop-in events, which have now taken place all over the city, and our letters page and email banks, we are compiling a fantastic archive of stories and pictures, all dedicated to the city we love.

Please write to Ann Fotheringham, Evening Times, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB or email ann.fotheringham@heraldandtimes.co.uk with your stories and photos.

Don’t forget to include a contact email address or telephone number.