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Thats nice..
I remember the buses in the city in the 50s....During the winter when it was dark and raining the lights made the inside look so inviting ..Sort of warm...just like this picture....happy memories..
Jenny

Wonderful photo Chris. I don't think there was anything like this where I grew up.

Chris & Margit - that IS warm and inviting, as Jenny has stated.

Hi Chris...

Were you over on the Isle of Man recently or was this visiting you?  Or is it just advertising on your local tram car?

Great photo and what a wonderful verse to go with it!

A tram, a sight that strikes a memory in a few of us, thanks for your comments.

I remember them from my childhood in Germany, mostly in the city of Trier on the Moselle (Mosel) river, spent many a summer there, then the home of my maternal grandparents.
And, then there are of course, the ones in San Francisco, if you haven't been there in person you've surely seen them in pictures.

I thought I answer the question, Chris is asleep, I'm burning the midnight oil after watching Sense and Sensibility.  No sense, no sensibility,   I should be asleep too.

No Pat, it's not the Isle of Man, it's actually a streetcar that runs the bay route from Fleetwood to Blackpool.  We travelled on it in the summer of 2002, it felt as if time had stood still or one was travelling through time back to an age where things were a bit slower. As we snailed along the track, swinging a bit from side to side all while the wheels on the track hummed a rusty melody to which the old tram harmonized with squeeking and cracking sounds, we felt a part of a life far removed from the hustle we saw outside the window.

But then there is so much of the old right alongside the new, the calm of a time long passed next to the haste of the day.

We just spent the afternoon in Southport, a beautiful town, also in the bay, that can pride itself of much history and old world charm, but it took us driving around....and around for an hour before finding a place to park.
It still proved to be a great day out though. :-)

Well, enough chatting and reminiscing....

Good Night, actually Good Morning.

Margit

Quote from: Margit Rhone-Saunders on February 15, 2004, 07:26:02 PM
I remember them from my childhood in Germany, mostly in the city of Trier on the Moselle (Mosel) river,

No Pat, it's not the Isle of Man, it's actually a streetcar that runs the bay route from Fleetwood to Blackpool.  

ok Margit...from Fleetwood to Blackpool...but that still doesn't tell me WHERE!  What country?  

Speaking of Trier and the Mosel river...I freighted my motorcycle across the Atlantic in 95  - landed in Frankfurt.  Rode up through Germany into Denmark and ferried across to Norway.  Rode up to the North Cape, and back down again.  Before I was through I'd been in 8 countries of Western Europe.  But I affectionately remember riding in the Mosel valley.  Beautiful country!  I even took a trip down the river through the locks.  Climbed  up to several Castles on hilltops commanding an awesome view of the villages and river.  I'll have to post a couple of pics from that trip!  

ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND!
Although we do travel a bit, it's England where we reside.:-)  Pat, had spent much time in our region, sowith comments arise from time to time pertaining to it.

Blackpool is somewhat comparable to Alantic City or Coney Island, some aim for it to become the Las Vegas of England.  Fleetwood is just north of it in the same bay.
Sorry for not having been more specific in my description and for not realizing that, although addressed to Pat, the information would be of interest to others as well.

Pictures of the Mosel valley would be great and appreciated not only by me, but because of it's beauty, by everyone.  Please do share them.

Looking forward to them...


Margit