Now Jenny mentioned trams!   That brings back a few memories!   My mother
had relatives in Sheffield, and we as children used to love travelling on
the trams, but we also used to love watching the cars and bikes getting
their wheels stuck in the tramlines, and wondering if they'd be able to
avoid the tram bearing down on them at speed!    What fun we had as
children.....

When I was growing up in Cardiff, in South Wales, we had trolley buses, and
they had the *arms* attaching themselves to the cables strung along the
streets, but they also had the tramlines too, so life was one round of
pleasure when we were children, waiting for all these disasters which didn't
happen!

But - we visited Beamish Rural Life Museum several years ago, where they
have trams - and I am sure that the one we travelled on was one that I had
travelled on as a child in Sheffield, as it was using a Sheffield
destination board!   I even stepped on the bell mechanism, just as we used
to do as children, to see if it still worked.  It did - much to the
resignation of the driver/conductor!

Carol - in East Anglia UK, wallowing in nostalgia, with the Gregorian chants
still going.....

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