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Upper Priory - Old Square

This trolleybus appears to be one of the first of a batch of Birmingham's trolleybuses received in the last three months of 1922. Numbered 1 - 12 OK 4823 - OK 4834; they ran for around ten years before withdrawal on the 7 Nechells route.
The photo shows a bus after its first major overhaul when it got a repaint in the more familiar BCT style. The original paint scheme had more cream on the lower panels. They ran on solid tyres all their lives!!
 
Great images Mike. The first one not only shows a service that clips horses, but singes them too, like a barber's shop of the time. Equine pampering !
 
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Church-like building - was it the Sunday School building for the Friends Meeting House ? (The Sunday School backed onto the Friends churchyard).
 

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