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Wires above....... [NSFW]

DA7
DA7 Posts: 126
edited September 2020 in General Charlton
Help me out chaps, flitting through the forum within the last few days, I came across information about a book (written by a lifer????) about trams and trolleybuses in south London. I seem to remember the title mentioned ‘wires above’ or some such.
For the life of me I can’t find the original thread. It would be a great present for someone I know.
Thanks.

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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    This one mate? - https://www.amazon.com/Under-Wires-Tally-Trolleybuses-1905-1962/dp/0752458752
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,762
    No trains?  What kind of a present is that?
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,992
    A present for "someone I know" - yeah right, that's going straight into your personal porn stash in the attic.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,428
    edited September 2020
    Reckon @GlassHalfFull will know.
    He posted an extract from a trams book in December 2014 to cheer up march51 in hospital at the time.
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    The book is a recent one and is called Wires Above South East London subtitled Woolwich to Gravesend by Tram and Trolleybus. The author Robert J Harley has written many transport books, with London trams being his absolute speciality. The book is published by Heathfield Publishing. Details also available from Capital Transport.

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,500
    I'm not usually a reactionary 'bring it back!' type, except in this instance. Bring them all back 
  • dogpat65
    dogpat65 Posts: 149
    GlassHalfFull said:

    The book is a recent one and is called Wires Above South East London subtitled Woolwich to Gravesend by Tram and Trolleybus. The author Robert J Harley has written many transport books, with London trams being his absolute speciality. The book is published by Heathfield Publishing. Details also available from Capital Transport.

    Is he anything to J R Hartley , the fine author of books on fly fishing
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    No - nor does he make fancy motorbikes! This book is hardcore - strictly for connoisseurs.

    Anyone interested in the Dec 2014 stuff - search tramista


  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,930
    Marked NSFW. Pay attention chaps, this is still a family-friendly forum.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,463
    This really should be "Members Only"

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  • Derek1952
    Derek1952 Posts: 781
    Don't know if this book is still available it was published in 1971.
  • FiveGoalSummers
    FiveGoalSummers Posts: 52
    I have written a number of books on transport subjects. We moved to Mayday Gardens, SE3 in March 1952 and for the next few months our tram stop was outside the Welcome Inn. Probably not many on this forum will recall the trams; the trolleybuses lasted longer locally until March 1959.
       The Glikstens complained to London Transport that attendance numbers had been adversely affected by the withdrawal of trams along Woolwich Road in July 1952. Lines of vehicles regularly used to clear 40,000+ crowds. Old timers from the East Terrace, where I used to stand, remembered being packed in, sometimes 100 people to one tram. It was a cheap form of transport which turned up in all weathers and for every home game.
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Surely you're not the great Dr Harley? Please PM me!!

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