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lencops
gone but not forgotten
Ticket to ride. Len. Pearson's Fresh Air Fund was a national charity which organised day trips and holidays to the countryside for poor city children. The Birmingham branch organised holidays to places like the Lickeys, Rubery and Sutton. Day trips went by tram from Suffolk St. Over 900 children took part in each day trip, the tags helped the organisers identify all the participants.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Lloyd
A special and unique little tram. PW8 was the last tram to move on Birminghams roads under its own steam. This tram was used a the works shunter at Kyotts Lake. On the 6th of August 1953 it left the depot under its own steam to be loaded onto W.T.Birds low loader.
It was then driven on its last journey to their scrap yard at Stratford upon Avon. Its second claim to being unique is that it was the only one to leave Kyotts Lake in a complete condition and not stripped down.
Phil
A special and unique little tram. PW8 was the last tram to move on Birminghams roads under its own steam. This tram was used a the works shunter at Kyotts Lake. On the 6th of August 1953 it left the depot under its own steam to be loaded onto W.T.Birds low loader.
It was then driven on its last journey to their scrap yard at Stratford upon Avon. Its second claim to being unique is that it was the only one to leave Kyotts Lake in a complete condition and not stripped down.
Phil
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Stitcher
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Nice pictyres Phil.
Lloyd
master brummie
Yes Phil PW8 had been constructed from the lower deck of 1907 tram 261 and the truck of 505. Its last days were shunting the remaining trams at 'The Lake' as they were cut in half (end to end through the lower deck window pillars) and put on the lorries taking them to Stratford, then as you say it was driven out into Kyotts Lake Road and lifted onto the truck and taken away.
lencops
gone but not forgotten
. What about the date change 1939 to 1940, i suppose they wanted to see how many children had been evacuated and if they would have 900 to make the trip viable. Len.Len thats a great tag did notice writing on the bottom of ita fresh air fund that says you must bring your gas mask LOL great
Lloyd
master brummie
Very few. 395 went to the science museum, 147 was for a while a summerhouse at Bickenhill, and 107 was rescued from near Bromsgrove by Aston Manor Transport Museum, but 'needs a bit of work'...
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
The ghosts of the Rednal trams will live for ever. There is even a bus here pretending to be a tram at Rednal terminus early one summer morning in 1989!
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
For those like myself who are less interested in the technical details of trams and more in the aesthetical nature of them, then I would recommend this book.
City to the Lickeys (A nostalgic Journey by Tram and Bus) by of course David Harvey. ISBN No 978-0-7524-4697-4. Price new £12.99. but as always I recommend you try Amazon Books or Abebooks.
It is full of photo's of trams and buses and whilst it gives some technical detail it does give details on what is going on around the tram outside on the route and surrounding areas.
Phil
City to the Lickeys (A nostalgic Journey by Tram and Bus) by of course David Harvey. ISBN No 978-0-7524-4697-4. Price new £12.99. but as always I recommend you try Amazon Books or Abebooks.
It is full of photo's of trams and buses and whilst it gives some technical detail it does give details on what is going on around the tram outside on the route and surrounding areas.
Phil
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lencops
gone but not forgotten
I would be of the opinion that the name labels would be unusable after the good dinner some of which may have got spilled on to them. Len.great pics but sad to see the trams like that cant remember ever going on one in brum I did go on Glasgow ones
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
great pics but sad to see the trams like that cant remember ever going on one in brum I did go on Glasgow ones
Was your Glasgow tram one of these?
Lloyd
master brummie
Glasgow kept it's trams much later than other cities, the system not finally closing until almost the end of 1962. The 'caurs' didn't seem to hinder the traffic, as this clip of film shows.
(Click on the title in the blue bar at the top of the screen to see it)
[ame="https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIVabDdbWU"]YouTube - Glasgow Trams - City Centre[/ame]
(Click on the title in the blue bar at the top of the screen to see it)
[ame="https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIVabDdbWU"]YouTube - Glasgow Trams - City Centre[/ame]
OtherHalf
posher half
Cheers for that clip Lloyd not seen it beforethere were two types there I went on both around Glasgow Parkhead Tollcross ,Shettleston etc late fifties and as you say Lloyd they kept theres a little bit longer than Brum did which explains (to me at least }why I can remember the sounds etc and not remember being on a Brum tramTA
there were two types there I went on both around Glasgow Parkhead Tollcross ,Shettleston etc late fifties and as you say Lloyd they kept theres a little bit longer than Brum did which explains (to me at least }why I can remember the sounds etc and not remember being on a Brum tramTA
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I remember going to the Lickeys as a child. Do you remember at bluebell time how people would pick bunches of flowers which would then be abandoned by the tram terminus because they had wilted?
Graham
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
The Rednal trams are one of the best cherished memories that I have from my youth. Day trip to the Lickeys picking Bilberries, mmmm!
Here in my new home town, Ghent, Belgium, there have always been trams and even now more tram routes are opening all the time. The trams and pedestrians mix without the slightest problems.
Here in my new home town, Ghent, Belgium, there have always been trams and even now more tram routes are opening all the time. The trams and pedestrians mix without the slightest problems.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrigr9a-VFA"]YouTube - Partey inde veldstraat[/ame]
David Harvey
master brummie
In Suffolk Street 3/51
paul stacey
master brummie
Rednal Trams.
My dear old dad used to take me to the Lickeys on the tram, we lived in Raglan Road, Edgbaston and would walk up to the Bristol Road every Sunday morning, those lovely gone forever now. What I remember most was the way every one who got on or off would say "goodmorning" or "T'arrah a bit" no one seems to do that any more.
My dear old dad used to take me to the Lickeys on the tram, we lived in Raglan Road, Edgbaston and would walk up to the Bristol Road every Sunday morning, those lovely gone forever now. What I remember most was the way every one who got on or off would say "goodmorning" or "T'arrah a bit" no one seems to do that any more.
izzy eckerslike
master brummie
To the left of the tram just above the trees the building you can see there is Nazareth house which was a home for little girls run by nuns of the poor sisters of Nazareth charity, we lived just beyond it on the new estate built in 1962, the nunnery sold the land the estate was built on & in time sold the building itself for more housing, our garden backed onto a field where there was a horse donated to the convent by Charlie Chester
OtherHalf
posher half
sorry off trams topic ?Izzy was there boys as well ?only reason I think that two lads from my class went there ? opposite austin ?and my school was boys only?
izzy eckerslike
master brummie
Can't remember really but if you look up Nazareth house childrens home it seems to have been for girls originally but took boys in later years, now the ones remaining seem to be old peoples homes
Bernard67Arnold
master brummie
I can well remember as a boy just before the war walking down Yardley Wood Road to the Happy Valley to catch the tram to the Lickey Hills we also went that way to the Tudor picture house,the tuppenny grush on Saturday afternoons. We used to spend all dayat the Lickleys with a couple of dripping sarnies and a bottle of tap water. Is it my memory or were the summers longer
and warmer in those days, its a bit like your army days you only tend to remember the good days. to quote one of my Dads favorite saying;"The Lord did a wonderful job
when he made Woman and then he to go and spoil it by giving them a tongue!
and warmer in those days, its a bit like your army days you only tend to remember the good days. to quote one of my Dads favorite saying;"The Lord did a wonderful job
when he made Woman and then he to go and spoil it by giving them a tongue!
paul stacey
master brummie
hi bernie
I am a little younger than you if the 67 stands for age ,but I do remember the long hot summers and the snowy cold winters and the bluebell springs, and red horse-chestnut falls. my moms cooking smelt and tasted better than any thing you could buy now and the people kinder and more helpfull and my old sgt/major good for pint??
age mellows one
paul stacey
I am a little younger than you if the 67 stands for age ,but I do remember the long hot summers and the snowy cold winters and the bluebell springs, and red horse-chestnut falls. my moms cooking smelt and tasted better than any thing you could buy now and the people kinder and more helpfull and my old sgt/major good for pint??
age mellows one
paul stacey
Bernard67Arnold
master brummie
Hello Paul, nice to meet someone who remember the so
called good old days, by the way the 67 is my old house
number in Yardley Wood where I lived from 1932 til 57, you have to another 12 years to get my age, I was nine
when the war started. What an awlful selfish world it is
nowadays, everybody thinks only of number one, take the ladder away Jack Im alright, there is so much aggro
on the roads and everywhere else you go, people let their kids do just what they, I think the world has gone
bonkers! bye for now
bernard67arnold
called good old days, by the way the 67 is my old house
number in Yardley Wood where I lived from 1932 til 57, you have to another 12 years to get my age, I was nine
when the war started. What an awlful selfish world it is
nowadays, everybody thinks only of number one, take the ladder away Jack Im alright, there is so much aggro
on the roads and everywhere else you go, people let their kids do just what they, I think the world has gone
bonkers! bye for now
bernard67arnold
paul stacey
master brummie
hi again bernie
as a brummigum chap you can tell me am I remembering correctly but back in the 50's every person bar a few who got on/off the tram or bus would say"good morning all" and on alighting "tarrah a bit" in and around brum. and the conductors were always busy lifting prams and push chairs, helping the older passengers or just chatting, contrast this now where I live in cambridge, misrable, unhelpful, and some cannot even speak english. we may have been poorer in coin but we were richer in life I think.
cheers
paul
as a brummigum chap you can tell me am I remembering correctly but back in the 50's every person bar a few who got on/off the tram or bus would say"good morning all" and on alighting "tarrah a bit" in and around brum. and the conductors were always busy lifting prams and push chairs, helping the older passengers or just chatting, contrast this now where I live in cambridge, misrable, unhelpful, and some cannot even speak english. we may have been poorer in coin but we were richer in life I think.
cheers
paul
Peter Walker
gone but not forgotten
Perraps, but us old'uns couldn't get on and off them trams like you can with a bus or tram today. For me that is progress.
Peter
Peter
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
This is where we came in as you might say. Trams at Rednal.