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Erdington Tramway Terminus

Spargone's map on post #29 shows the tram terminus in the roadway, just short of the Birmingham / Sutton boundary (which also defines the location of the later extention to Florence Road. Also shown is a 'Waiting room', provided for intending passengers - which is still there, having been unused for decades is now a barbers shop.
 

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Birmingham Daily Mail, October 1905…where are the Erdington trams ?

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If my information is correct this flyer, which appears in Erdington Vol II by Peter Drake and Marian Baxter, was printed in 1900. This might explain the delay experienced by the writer of the letter in Pedro's cutting.

I have looked through all the relevant trades directories that I could find (although the originals are missing, one of the members of the research group at the library had photographed them all). I found that the shops were in existence at Broadfields Parade from the 1925/26 edition so it would have been at least a year earlier when the area was surveyed. I am presuming that the new tram terminus was incorporated into the scheme at the same time, so before 1924.
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