[West Ender]

I remember the trams that ran from Blackburn to Church Commercial. When they got to the Church terminus the driver had to get out to turn the pantograph round and the condutor flipped all the seat-backs the other way. Some of the trams had open top decks. I loved them.

The road in West End was paved with, sort of, flat cobbles and the more house-proud ladies used to polish the bit of tram lines that ran past their houses. These were the same ladies who would scrub drain pipes and gutter covers with black lead. Not my mum, she had better things to do.

Here, we have had proposals to extend the Manchester-Altrincham tramway to Warrington, on the path of the extinct railway. I would welcome it but the idea seems to have died the death, just like yours.