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Halifax Tram Strike
One rainy Sunday evening in July 1906, the Number 94 tram from Shelf to Halifax ran out of control while coming down New Bank, overturned, and slid over North Bridge. Two passengers were killed and 12 were injured. It is said that the driver, Theodore Chadwick, did all he could to try to slow the tram down, but he was still dismissed by the Tramways Committee. This led to the 1906 Halifax Tram Strike, which eventually ended in September that year.
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Mainlining Memories
This photo is the result of a random dip into my archives. I took it forty years ago during a visit to Athens. I seem to recall that we stopped at the…
Deep History
For a long time, this was indexed under “unknown location” in my negative files, but a recent Google search allowed me to identify it as the former Hanley Deep Pit in Stoke-on-Trent.…
Escaping The Mill
The telegraph poles provide the date stamp for this photograph of a mill fire escape in Halifax. At some point over the fifty-six years since I took it, I seem to have…
Sheffield Days
This photograph dates back to my Sheffield days in the 1980s – days of grey and white and miners’ strikes. I’d probably just got off the bus, and as I…
Busy Elland
I can’t be exact about the date, but I suspect it was around 1969 or 1970 when I took this photograph. It looks as though I was standing in the…
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