Lost Tramways: Birmingham North

Until the summer of 1953 the streets of Birmingham resounded to the sounds of the city’s 3ft 6in gauge electric trams. The system was part of a network of tramways that stretched into the Black Country and represented the country’s largest concentration of narrow gauge tramways. This volume is one of two that recall that era; focusing on the routes to the north of the city centre – to places like Perry Barr, Aston, Erdington and Pype Hayes Park – the book provides a graphic reminder that it is not only the historic trams that have been lost but the streetscapes through which many of them operated have also largely disappeared.