The horse drawn tramway started in Sheffield in 1873.
As a five-year-old child in 1960, I was lucky enough to have taken a ride on the last horse drawn tram on October 8th, 1960, which ran from Leopold Street to Beauchief in Sheffield.
My great uncle, Frederick Webster (deceased) captured passengers, including myself (the child in the left foreground in a fur-trimmed, green hat and coat), boarding the tram on Pinstone Street with his Standard 8 cine camera.
The tram in the archive video clip is painted with the number ‘15′, as the one in the photo below:
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August 31, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The last electric trams ran on 8th October 1960. The horse tram ran later that year around Christmas time on a section of the track that was left at the bottom of the Moor, and was on display on High Street during the illuminations