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Trams in Gillingham

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MartinR:
Do you have links to the wikipedia article and to the Rochester article?

Dave Smith:
I notice on Wikepeda? they say the last trams were in 1930, although the Rochester site says 1932. Well, I can remember travelling with my Dad on the top deck in the front of an open top tram, along Gillingham High Street, from Canterbury Street toward the train station. It was very noisy, windy & rattley but I had a sense of euphoria that I well remember- I'm pretty sure I was standing holding on to the front handrail. I was born in April, 1930 so W. is wrong & my memory as a 2 + ( it was daylight but nights were drawing in, so probably Autumn/early Winter) year old just about fits the Rochester Archive. I can also see in my minds eye, the conductor with a long pole, switching the overhead arms from one set of cables to another set. That is definitely my earliest memory.

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