Jonob
master brummie
I think it's a grassy bank - bit of a c--p photo, John.Where in Rubery was the terminus ? For trams.
The reason I ask that's a tall brick wall.
I think it's a grassy bank - bit of a c--p photo, John.Where in Rubery was the terminus ? For trams.
The reason I ask that's a tall brick wall.
The No 70 Rednal tram (4th pic) is standing in Navigation Street. The walls behind can be seen in the pic below.Where in Rubery was the terminus ? For trams.
The reason I ask that's a tall brick wall.
Thanks for the photo. Met my wife here outside Jeromes in November 1956.Martineau Street was a favourite place to photograph trams and tram 20 No 6 Perry Barr waits at the terminus. There are often interesting things to see around the trams and I see Jeromes Photographic Studio on the left. Many parents in the 1940s would smarten up their kids and take them there to be photographed. I was smartened up and taken there and have the photos on the forum here ...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/my-family-snaps.16090/page-7#post-416542
Also in the tram pic, flower sellers can be seen on the pavement in front of Dolcis.
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Another glimpse of Jeromes but there always seemed to be a tram in the way ...Thanks for the photo. Met my wife here outside Jeromes in November 1956.
thanks. alan.Standard Gauge, nominally 4'8½".
oldMohawk, great picture!Tram 632 entering the Witton Depot. Looks like tram enthusiasts on board.
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Thank you Alan!Car 623, was one of 50 built in 1920/21 - ( 587 - 636). It led car 616, the official last car of the BCT system on 4th. July, 1953, out of Miller Street depot for the closing day. Prior to this it had. apparently, been stored at Kyotts Lake Road and had occasional use as a spare car. It therefore escaped any graffiti!
The photo is of that last day and there were enthusiasts on board. The route box says 'Special Car'
Yes I posted it see below. I use Google Site: search to find short words on the BHF, but knew I must have used the word 'Suffolk' in an older post same thread so a search for that word and my user name found the post ...I have the feeling that those cars are in another photo here on BHF and were owned by the Corporation or other official body. Unfortunately gas and bag are too short for a search.
Car 618 has wartime lighting, white painted fender and presumably repainted not too long ago. No adverts on it it seems.
Even passengers on the No 71 tram look somewhat amazed ...
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Alan, I think you are correct......Even the license plate numbers are in close sequence!I have the feeling that those cars are in another photo here on BHF and were owned by the Corporation or other official body. Unfortunately gas and bag are too short for a search.
Car 618 has wartime lighting, white painted fender and presumably repainted not too long ago. No adverts on it it seems.
Navigation Street, Stephenson Street would be to the left and Hill Street to the right. Note the overall roof to the LNWR side of New Street Station, destroyed by bombs in WW2. Note also the shelter is not a permanent structure and consists of two units, sitting on the roadway leaving the pavement clear behind it.
any idear of the year the adverts look 1920s/30s
The 34 was unusual as it was a route number used both for a tram service and its replacement bus service. I would assume that the bus service therefore used the same route (via Bristol Road & Holloway Head) and stops as the trams did.I note that service 34 was listed. This was a tram route that was discontinued in 1930. Bus route 34 took its place. Was this a tram stop and bus stop or did the 34 bus stop somewhere else.
The strange appearance of car 342's upper deck ends was because it was the corporation's prototype conversion of open balcony cars to fully enclosed ones. Later versions had far more glass. I imagine this is a just pre WW2 photo, as the tram and pavement kerb have the white markings, but the tram's headlight masks have not yet been fitted. It's possibly a Ray Coxon shot, he took a few here.