Boar Lane C1900 tram ride

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Hats Off
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Post by Hats Off »

Don't know if this has been put on here before (if so I appologise ) but it's an interesting little vid.Regards.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2vfe1E ... re=related
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BLAKEY
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A wonderful clip - and when you walk along Boar Lane today, although the "line" is the same, the mind boggles at the local and World events that have taken place since. Just for one sobering thought - many of the folks in the scene will have later taken part in WW1 and will never have returned to Leeds, or if they did their lives and those of their kinfolk will have been changed for ever. I know, 'cos I am a descendent of one of the latter.    
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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Si
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Post by Si »

Fantastic! It's noticable how people crossing the tramlines (either on foot, or with a horse and cart) seem totally oblivious of the oncoming tram!
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drapesy
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Post by drapesy »

Interstingly there are electric trams and also a steam tram
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BIG N
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Post by BIG N »

Si wrote: Fantastic! It's noticable how people crossing the tramlines (either on foot, or with a horse and cart) seem totally oblivious of the oncoming tram! Yeah Si - and some things never change, try watching pedestrians in Leeds today, just the same in front of buses etc.
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