The last tram at Barrow - April 5th 1932

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    Four men are standing in front of a tram (number 45) which has been decorated with a garland on the front and the destination sign has been set to “Special Car”. A double deck bus stands to the left of the tram. motor cars in the distance to the right of the tram. This was a small ceremony for the last tram journey made on the Barrow-in-Furness tram system which took place on April 5th 1932. Driver William Parsons drove tram No 45 for the final time....Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Ref. A434, BDB 86/1/3243. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
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    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
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    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=1501
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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