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Old 10-01-2009, 10:18   #18
mikeya
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Re: Tram, destination Accrington

Hello there

Slightly off beam this but some of you might be interested. I recently took some photos of old streetlamps in Bradford (I know - over the border!) that are being removed. They're old trolleybus overhead poles that went up, in Eccleshill, in 1934. The link is that apparently Bradford Corporation had bought some secondhand tram poles to resuse from the then abandoned Accrington Tramways - and certainly I'd always wondered why some of these lamp posts in Bradford are slightly slimmer than their usual ones.

Harrogate Road, Bradford, W Yorkshire - old street lamp on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Anyhow, its just a link with your town's tramways that were surprisingly still with us until this year. I'm amazed that those lamp posts were, effectively, a century old!

Regards, Mikey
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