Twickenham to Teddington 2012 

AbsolutelyRuwaydah Well....thank you.

I lived close to Fulwell Depot 1949-73 and worked in Twickers 1966-73, so all of this is very nostalgic for me! In fact, the tram tracks were still extant in Heath Road, Twickenham (under the tarmac) until dug-up during road widening c1968. The tarred wood blocks recovered from the roadway were much prized locally for the fireplace! And I could tell some tales about 'accidentally' de-wired trolleybuses, especially where the 601 and 667 routes split at the end of Stanley Road!

@@harstan7333 I used to travel on these trolleybuses, built in 1931, with my mother from Raynes Park to Kingston sometimes, for shopping - routes 604 and 605. Somehow the frail bodies on them (built for a ten year lifespan) were kept together until 1948, when they were replaced by brand new trolleybuses, the last that London Transport ever bought. Each pair of overhead wires from Fulwell Garage were closer together than what the newly-formed London Transport used from 1933 and had to be made wider to the revised standard. The vehicles initially interfered with household radio reception and two drums were put on the roofs containing suppression equipment to cure that. You can clearly see these on the video.

There IS a replacement church there, but it's single storey, set back and is hidden behind the trees.

alastair saint That is all the available old footage that I had.

They probably are the same trees, but remember they will have been pruned (coppiced) many times since 1931, and the 1931 film is from mid May with the trees in near full bloom, whereas the 2012 film is from March, so the leaves won't be out.

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