Archive for the ‘Transportation’ Category

Last Horse Drawn Tram Sheffield

February 25, 2008

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:

horse drawn tram in Sheffield