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Date:28th of November 1891

Description:At this date there were a large number of complaints about the quality of the tram service from Perry Barr into Birmingham. This cutting from the East Birmingham News is a poem about a youth who wanted to go from Perry Barr into Birmingham one day. He got onto a tram and by the time he had got to Birmingham had grown white haired and old!

From the G.H. Osborne Collection of newscuttings.

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Perry Barr Buses & Trams 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Image courtesy of: Birmingham Central Library

Donor ref:L93.2 G H Osborne Collection (15/3064)

Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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