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Armistice Day Tram

Brenda

master brummie
It was Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when a tram knocked over my paternal Great Grandfather, Joseph Talbot aged 80, and dragged him about a mile along Bristol Road. What a day for this to happen as he had survived the war.

He eventually died in hospital on Boxing Day of that year as a result of this accident.

Many of the members of my mother's side of the family were tram and bus drivers during the war and after aswell as my Mom being a conductress on the Birmingham Corporation buses.
 
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