Lady Penelope
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Looking at oM's last post the access road is there in the first picture so that takes it back to 1931. Thank you.
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Erdington Tramway Terminus
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Lloyd
master brummie
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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Lady Penelope
master brummie
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.
Looking at this B&W photo, the tram terminus waiting room building shown in post #32 used to have a portico attached to its front (see blue dot on Streetview attached). Douay Road bears off to the right.
terminus waiting room today nice to know its still there
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oh sorry mort i must have miss understood lloyds post 32 and vivs post 34...i thought that that building used to be the tram waiting room..
lyn
That’s interesting Lyn, on the map it is labelled as a waiting room on the map. I wonder when it was originally built? Maybe it was for the trams. I recall it in the late 60’s as public loos through the two doors either side and in the middle, it was used by the gas works as a regulator house. It certainly did have that nice portico on the front, which is overkill for a utility building, so maybe there was a change of use.