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Tram images & Birmingham

Browsing through some old mags and came across this by Eric Bottomley.
Wonderful painting, and just to show how good the artist is I've re-produced it in antique, could almost be a photograph.
 
I had this photo as my opening page for several months. It so full of detail you can keep on finding things you didn't notice before.
This is Aston Cross as I remember it even from 1972. Great painting in every way for Brummie's to view. Thanks for posting it.
 
Picture 3 is looking up the Parade from newhall st on he left.
Picture No 5 . Tram is coming out of oldbury market place into birmingham st in july 1938
Mike
PS I was counting from the left. just realised that they were numbered and what I called 3 was your 5 and visa versa
 
Thank you Mikejee , still cant work out the newhall st one though
and 5 .... Oldbury market ?? If it is ........ well spotted.
ragga :)
 
Ragga i may have another one Post # 39 photo 4 just past the brow of Cape Hill at the junction of Windmill Lane and Waterloo Rd i like you don,t know the tram routes but the lay out looks familiar. Dek
 
ragga said:
Thank you Mikejee , still cant work out the newhall st one though
and 5 .... Oldbury market ?? If it is ........ well spotted.
ragga :)
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it looks more like Wendesbury town center to me mind you i didn,t know Oldbury that well. Dek
 
ragga got a few locations for you.
#34 (1) Wednesbury. (2) Carrs Lane after last tram day. Withdrawn car going to Kyotts Lake works, coasting from High Street down to Moor Street due to no overhead wiring. Wire still up in Moor St.
#36 (1) Stratford Rd climbing from College Arms. (2) Hagley Road, Kings Head terminus. (3)Witton. (4) Lozells. (5) Alum Rock Road original terminus at Highfied Road.
#39 (1) Dudley Station terminus.
Tramtastic photos eh?
Mike
 
Ragga
I take it you have registered my addition to the earlier post making clear to which i was referring.
Not a wonderful knowledge of the area, just thought I'd recognised the photo. The info was from the captions. One of them wasn't the same photo, but taken from the same place. Here they are with captions
 
Post #34:
Tram 80, Oldbury MArket Place (Birmingham St/Freeth St) Route 86 terminus.
Tram 651 coasting down Carrs Lane after closure, (no wires) en route to Kyotts Lake Rd Works for scrap
Tram 128 Parade / Newhall Hill jcn, Sandpits off to Right. Route 29 (Bearwood)
Tram 16 Birchfield Rd, Route 6 to Perry Barr station.
Tram 154 Birmingham Rd Oldbury, Market Place (and Midland Red buses) visible behind.
Post #36:
Tram 571 Stratford Rd, outbound from city climbing hill from Shaftmoor Lane jcn.
Tram 89 Bearwood Rd terminus (outside Wrenson's grocers!).
Tram 146 - Witton square? Route 3 City - Witton via High St Aston.
Tram 636 Villa Cross pub - my dad's shop visible immediately behind the tram, sunblind extended. The tram hides the Villa Cross cinema.
Tram ??? in Alum Rock Road.
Post #39:
Tram 165 at Dudley Station, teminus of the routes from Birmingham via West Bromwich (74) or Oldbury(87).
Tram 314 in Slade Rd, Highcroft Hospital wall on the right.
Tram 3 - Stratford Rd?? not sure of this location.
Tram 215 Dudley Rd near Cape Hill - route 30 to Windmill Lane (short working of 29 Bearwood service).

Smashing views, an age of transport sadly gone.
 
Thank you Lloyd for your run down of locations to the tram photos
I think you are correct on them all ....... well done :cool:
ragga :)
 
post #48
Tram 17 Route 6 Perry Barr - Birchfield Rd (agree with moss g). It's a post - WW2 shot (the bus has adverts - only trams carried ads pre-war), a 1950 phone book gives "GH Watts, prams, 442 Birchfield Rd" (between Bragg Rd and Aston Lane I think)
Tram 308 Route 17 Hall Green - Stratford Rd (City boundary) 17 terminus - that location today...
Tram ??? Route 17 Hall Green - Also Stratford Rd, possibly just south of Highfield Rd Jcn - the properties shown have now long gone. Tram heading southbound (from city).
 
Hi ragga,i think picture #4 is Perry Barr with the New Crown & Cushion in the background.Post #2 is also Perry Barr with The Birchfield cinema in the background.Moss.
 
Lovely photos.
1] Car 471 at Selly Oak depot - displaying the rare destination "Priory Rd for County Cricket Ground 54"
2] Car 3 outside the Birchfield Cinema (as mossg says).
3] Car 139 turning into Heath Street from Dudley Road. A little bit different now.
4] Car 17 at Perry Barr (again as mossg says).
5] Car 163 at Bordesley Green East / Stuarts Road junction - the same spot today.
 
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Thank you again lloyd and to mossy for giving me the answers to the recent
postcards i posted :)
heres a nice print which i assume was taken when the tram was put into
place at the old Siecence Musuem in Newhall street .
ragga :)
 
No, the preserved one is car 395, this is car 152 in Witton depot, still in running days - in fact it is still in the pre-war livery with cream rocker panels.
 
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