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EVENING MAIL THURSDAY 20 From caves to cars a village traces its roots KINVER volunteer lire brigade with their ..

... These “troglodytes are photographed their home at Holy Austin Rock Kin inf 1895 KINVER Light Railway the first electric tram service in the vHlage opened in A village turns ALL NEED out its attics I KNOW ABOUT by HUGH BERLYN HUNDREDS of dusty attics in ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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MIDLAND Beautiful Water m Strawberries DIARY in the Car

... the fountain once more without the lamp standards. Steam trams ran in Dudley from about 1884 until 1899 when the electric tram service began and all else my correspondent has been able to discover is that many older people remember the lamps about the ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 637 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Eight SUNDAY MERCURY 13 A girl can be at 5am care Electricity Service anyone would never go a round in

... files and moving into another office E HOLLOWAY 2 A new job hNE morning after a bad raid on Birmingham the Lodge Road 32 tram service was out of action due I believe to part of the overhead wires being iicen Kent Street North Hockley Birmingham Brave nurses ...

Published: Sunday 13 November 1960
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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MR. TOM WILLETTS

... walk to Dudley and back to collect and deliver mail. Later he had the luxury of a pony and trap which he used until the tram service began. He did 12 to 15 miles a day on foot and estimated that altogether he must have walked between 120,000 and 150.000 ...

Published: Monday 28 February 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 685 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

EVENING MAIL TUESDAY MAY 25 1999 35 GETTING out and about doesnt to be a hassle thanks to Centra's Out

... to your door from 28th May Why not take a ride on the Midland Metro Sample for yourself this fast ultra-efficient modern tram service that will revolutionise the travel between Snow HOI and Wolverhampton St George's The £145 million light rail system opens ...

Published: Tuesday 25 May 1999
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 731 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

MIDLAND DIARY Juggernauts Unwanted El Lord Salisbury Was Annoyed

... services in the city by more than 30 years. A body known as the All-night Tram Services Joint Associations Movement conducted an active campaign for a 24-hour tram service. That the campaign did not succeed may have been due to the strenuous opposition ...

Published: Monday 11 January 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 786 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Obituary MR. TOM WILLETTS Mr. Tom Wißetts, of Barrs Road, Cradley Heath, who became Old Hill's first full-time ..

... walk to Dudley and back to collect and deliver mail. Later he had the luxury of a pony and trap which he used until the tram service began. He did 12 to 15 miles a day on foot and estimated that altogether he must have walked between 120,000 and 150.000 ...

Published: Monday 28 February 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 688 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

MERCURY t YOUR QUESTIONS EVERYTHING DRASTICALLY I REDUCED! Trams in their heyday our TT70ULD you please settle ..

... the date when this route was extended to Fox and Goose and the number of the service? HSC Great Barr Birmingham The No tram service which started on May 2 1907 ran from the city centre Sladefleld Road Ward End until December 20 1913 when extended to the ...

Published: Sunday 04 September 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Aspirin Was a Novelty Di

... early career in Northern Ireland. a distance banking. of three-quarterS of a mile. It was the last remaining regular horse tram service in the Kingdom—that at Douglas. Isle of Man, operates only in summer-- and was withdrawn on September 30 because on that ...

Published: Tuesday 08 October 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Severn floods as 100 mph gales lash Britain HOMES on the banks of the River Severn were evacuated yesterday as

... streets were under two feet of water and scores of cars and vans were abandoned. Motorists had to be carried to safety. The tram service was stopped at the Pleasure Beach and four sections of the sea wall were damaged. The sea wall between Barrowin - Furnesss ...

Published: Tuesday 28 February 1967
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 755 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... An dm luxury clam with private ba hotel throoms. room coaled bar. excellent combos and servlcae Sea front Wet. Express tram service. Firstclass golf. Tel 6245. :MULLION. S. Cornwall POLOHU HOTEL for Summer hofidsys Med-week accepted. Safe bathing g Holiday ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1962
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Mercwy May 1979 FIRESIDE Giggle that got VIVIAN BIRD ROAD Baptist Church Sparkbrook Birmingham which celebrates ..

... it took around 200 vehicles daily paying toll Angel Hotel tollbar cover the cost of road maintenance When in 1885 steani tram service began along Stratford Road to St John’s Road Church wrote to the Tramways Company informing them ’‘of the serious annoyance ...

Published: Sunday 27 May 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 804 | Page: 37 | Tags: none