[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by MikeA

The TV programme's on again tonight on BBC4. THe 'Accrington' clip is about 22 minutes into the programme. Here's a link:
BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire

I expect there'll be a link to iPlayer before long - and there are repeats tomorrow and Saturday.

Doesn't look like Ellison St to me, looking down Ellison St, on the right after the Hippodrome there were no buildings, it was an open space known as Ellisons Tenement, the Accrington Pals held their first parades there in September 1914. When they were able they did their drills on the tenement, & when it was raining they drilled in the Tram shed. Another is the Factory chimneys in the back ground, are too far apart to be Hyndburn Mill or Holme Mill, & Ewbanks works Chimney would show to the left, of Hyndburn Mill, then there is the street sign on the end of the building, looks a short one, even shorter than Blake St.
If the tram is already in Accrington, carrying passengers, supposedly coming up Ellison St, why is the destination sign Accrington, surely it is coming from some where, & going to Accrington. Again if that is Ellison St, then the depot would be at the bottom, doubt if there would be any passengers on it, especially as one chap gets off the moving tram as it turns right, why would any one get on the tram at the Ellison St depot, and then jump off at the top.

Retlaw.