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100 Years Of Sheffield Trams
The fall and rise of the Sheffield tram. This DVD celebrates both the new light rail system, as well as the former tramway which closed in 1960.
Relive memories through a mix of colour and black and white film of the old double-deckers on the Moor and Fargate, passing the Telegraph building, war-damaged Burtons and C&A, turning through Fitzalan Square, journeying along Waingate, Lady's Bridge and the Wicker.
In the 1950s, sway into suburban Millhouses, Beauchief, Abbey Lane and Woodseats, climb up the famous hilly lines to Meadowhead, Eccleshall, Crookes, Walkley, Sheffield Lane Top, Handsworth and Manor Top.
Enter the grime and gloom of Brightside, Tinsley and Neepsend, speed out to the United and Wednesday football grounds.
Soak up the rain-lashed funeral rites of October 1960.
Follow the light-rail renaissance of the 1990s.
Some intriguing 'then and now' sequences.
Highlights:
•A recently-discovered film of a tram journey made in 1901 along the Moor
•High Street and Haymarket
•Bustling activity in the 1920s and 1930s
•Wartime devastation
•The old trams which 'escaped'
A fantastic historical record of Sheffield over 100 years - rich in period cars, buses, trains, long-gone shops, houses, cinemas and fashions.
Colour and Black and white
Informative commentary throughout
Some of this footage has also been used in another title, "Sheffield Trams"
Running time - 60 Minutes