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This remarkable vintage film features a kids outing by Midland Red bus from Nuneaton to Wicksteed Park, near Kettering in 1932. A parade of old buses takes hundreds of Nuneaton kids out for the day. See all the fun of the park as well as a trip on the Wicksteed Park Railway. (courtesy Malcolm Curtis)