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Old 21-10-2011, 18:03   #1
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Trams in church

Anyone out there old enough to remember the trams from Intack and Blackburn running to and from the commercial pub at church and when they stopped?
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Old 21-10-2011, 18:20   #2
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Anyone out there old enough to remember the trams from Intack and Blackburn running to and from the commercial pub at church and when they stopped?
Remember my Grandma saying she used them, think they stopped prior to the second world war
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Old 21-10-2011, 18:42   #3
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In fact it was 1949. I got this from the book 'Blackburn Tram Rides' by Jim Halsall which I published.
Going on the tram from t'Commercial to Blackburn on a Sunday morning with my grandad is one of my earliest memories.This would be about 1944/5. I sat upstairs in the front seats, which were made of wooden slats and got off at the bottom of Eanam near the horse trough. The trams were green and cream. The lines did not link up with the Accrington ones running from Market St into Blackburn Rd at the other side of the Commercial cross roads. Accrington's trams finished in 1931.
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Old 21-10-2011, 19:00   #4
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In fact it was 1949. I got this from the book 'Blackburn Tram Rides' by Jim Halsall which I published.
Going on the tram from t'Commercial to Blackburn on a Sunday morning with my grandad is one of my earliest memories.This would be about 1944/5. I sat upstairs in the front seats, which were made of wooden slats and got off at the bottom of Eanam near the horse trough. The trams were green and cream. The lines did not link up with the Accrington ones running from Market St into Blackburn Rd at the other side of the Commercial cross roads. Accrington's trams finished in 1931.
Thanks Bob that answers my memory of a ride on them with my mother and her sister possibly going to Blackburn I also was very young, again I would think early 40s,
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Old 21-10-2011, 20:45   #5
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Used to catch the tram to Blackburn at Church, if you sat on the top deck at the front, when you came to Copy Nook, it felt like the tram was going to topple over as it went down Eanam.
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Old 23-10-2011, 13:41   #6
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Groove would like to go back in time and travel on the trams.
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Old 23-10-2011, 17:34   #7
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Groove would like to go back in time and travel on the trams.
That makes a change , Thought you was going to be a tram driver on your day off from your sports .

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have you never heard of a town called BLACKPOOL???
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Old 23-10-2011, 17:43   #9
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have you never heard of a town called BLACKPOOL???
Do they still have a circus, they could be in need of a clown
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Old 23-10-2011, 17:50   #10
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yep, they may be in need of another clown though J
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Old 24-10-2011, 09:24   #11
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yep, they may be in need of another clown though J
Send um a link to Accy Web, we have one ned that fits the bill
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have you never heard of a town called BLACKPOOL???
Groove would only like travel through Accy on a tram is what he meant Mrs.Flashy. Groove envys the older members of the forum who remember Accy as a thriving town.
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Groove would only like travel through Accy on a tram is what he meant Mrs.Flashy. Groove envys the older members of the forum who remember Accy as a thriving town.
As yeh were a fireman during the Blitz, there can't be many much older n you.
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Old 24-10-2011, 13:46   #14
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Used to catch the tram at Intack,near the Old Mother Red Cap,during the war and travel to Church Commercial,then walk along Blackburn Road to the Grammar School.
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As yeh were a fireman during the Blitz, there can't be many much older n you.
A fireman during the Blitznow wonder he's gaga
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