Our friends at Bee Network are making child fares free for the whole of August - and kids under 16 go free at our museum. So if you're looking for a cheap and fun day out, bring them by bus to us - we're open Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays 10 am to 4.30 pm. motgm.uk

We love this pic, not least because it features a bus that's now in our collection (Oldham 368, we showed it in its current state a couple of weeks ago). But as it's #MysteryMonday, do you know the location of this photo? Just 'Oldham' will not get the points...

#OnThisDay in 1929, the North Western and Midland Red companies jointly began a Manchester-London express service using coaches like this. The journey took nearly twelve hours including refreshment stops - no motorways, so no Keele Services!

Our #SaturdayShowoff highlights an item from our collection each week. This week it's a Scottish interloper, Alexander PA164, and its job in the museum is to commemorate all the 'foreign' buses that visited our region. If you want to look at our collection, visiting details are at motgm.uk

You wait ages for a bus and then...! #ThrowbackThursday this week takes us to 1982, and the Pope's visit to Manchester. Buses were used extensively (to the joy of drivers paid overtime) for transport to and from the site in Heaton Park.

Ah, standard preservation ratio - eight watching, one working... 😉 [the Directors of the Company did a tour of garages, 1964]

This week's #MysteryMonday photo shows a bus, a bus stop, some shops - is it enough to say where it is? If you think so let us know, and we'll confirm later where this photo was taken.

At a loose end on this grey day? Come and have a look at our ‘Remembering Lancashire United’ event that’s on today. Free rides to/from Shudehill Interchange and Peel Park in Salford. It’s a ride back in time for the family and it’s on until 4.30 this afternoon.

You're looking at the inside of the upper saloon of our 1934 Crossley, no. 436. It's our major restoration project and it's coming on - but we need your help with funding to buy specialist parts and services. If you can help, please go to our fundraising page at justgiving.com/campaign/man...

Our #SaturdayShowoff showcases our collection and maybe tempts you to visit. This week it's #Rochdale 235, a 1951 AEC. Check that wonderful colour scheme! Want to see the real things? Details at motgm.uk

It's our 'Remembering Lancashire United' event this weekend, so for #ThrowbackThursday we're having an LUT memory - this is the view you'd see as you passed the company's Atherton garage. It's all gone today, but come to our museum this weekend to relive the glory days of this much-missed company.

If you're coming to our 'Remembering Lancashire United' event this weekend, please come by public transport if you can. Here are the timetables - all our heritage bus services are completely free.

With our 'remembering Lancashire United' event coming up this weekend (25/26 July), we just HAD to have a #MysteryMonday featuring one of the company's buses. So over to you, armchair detectives? Tell us if you think you know where this is, and we'll confirm the answer later.

Next weekend 25/26 July) we'll remember Lancashire United, a bus company that was once the biggest of its kind in Britain. It'll be a great day out - but please come by public transport, there'll be a free heritage bus service to/from Shudehill Interchange.

It's time for #SaturdayShowoff when we highlight something from our collection and maybe tempt you to visit. #Oldham 321 is one of the few buses in our collection that isn't restored - but don't worry, its time will come when other projects are complete. Want to see it? Visiting details at motgm.uk

It's time for our #ThrowbackThursday pic, and what a Throwback! This is Saint Peter's Square in Manchester city centre, in 1938. These buses were known as 'Streamliners' and they must have made an impressive sight in their striking red and off-white colour scheme. Sadly, none survive.

Our 'Remembering Lancashire United' event is just a couple of weeks away - here's the timetable for the free heritage bus services we plan to operate.

We've deleted the street name to make this week's #MysteryMonday pic harder to solve. But the clue is that every building seen still stands today. Do you know where it is? Tell us if you think you have the answer, and we'll confirm it later.

Here's an example of the things that we receive. It's a document made by a destination blind manufacturer. with the names needed on a blind for North Western's Wilmslow depot in 1961. How many names do you recognise? We admit we're not sure where 'Stormy Point' is...

Our #SaturdayShowoff brings an item from our collection to you, and maybe tempts you to visit. This week it's #Leigh 15, a handsome AEC type built in 1965. Like to see the real thing? Visiting details at motgm.uk

#ThrowbackThursday this week takes us to King Street, Oldham, watching one of the town's buses in its 'pommard and cream' colour scheme. It's fair to say this scene has changed beyond recognition since.

If you're looking for bus-themed books, or models, or collectables, browse our online shop at www.motgmshop.uk - we always have things for the bus nut in your life.

MoTGM Shop: Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

MoTGM Shop from the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester has a wide collection of books, models, collectables and gifts to buy online

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Boo, it's the start of the week. Yay, that means it's time for our #MysteryMonday photo! So over to you, armchair detectives, where was this pic taken? Tell us if you think you know, and we'll reveal the answer later.

Got the date in your diary? Camera charged up? Later this month we'll remember Lancashire United, the bus company that until 50 years ago was seen all over the west of our region. Free rides, visiting buses, lots to see... Event details: motgm.uk/events-theme...

Our #SaturdayShowoff brings our collection to you. This week it's #Bolton 77, a lovely little Leyland. Would you like to see the real thing? Visiting details at motgm.uk

We thought we'd have a train (or Metrolink) themed #ThrowbackThursday this week. It's June 1990 and the old Bury electric trains are about to end, replaced by Metrolink trams. This is a down-at-heel Victoria station, at a spot that the Victoria Metrolink stop occupies today.

This is a fascinating scene from the nineteen sixties, there's so much to see. We love the Bedford coach, the tobacconist, the magic shop and the vintage cars. But where is it? It's over to you to say as it's this week's #MysteryMonday. Tell us if you think you know, and we'll confirm later.

We bring our #SaturdayShowoff to you, to highlight our collection and maybe tempt you to visit. An unusual view today - this is the stunning interior of #Ashton 8, our 1928 'Karrier' bus. Want to see it? Visit motgm.uk for visiting details.

It's #ThrowbackThursday, so it's time to bring you a photo from our archives. This week it's a National Express coach arriving at Manchester's Chorlton Street coach station for a trip to Llandudno. We'd love to have a ticket to ride it!

Yes, those gents might well look - this coach is a stunner! It was owned by Warburton Brothers of Tottington, and was painted black and cream. But we're not saying where the photo was taken as it's this week's #MysteryMonday pic. Do you know? Over to you...