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Archive/Photo of the Month & First Hampshire and Dorset latest news |
Last updated: 15 February 2019 |
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Archive/Photograph of the Month | ||||||||||||||||
For our first archive feature of 2019, I have chosen a photograph that shows one of Provincial’s earliest vehicles in Gosport. Taken at the Brockhurst terminus of the horse drawn tramway, it shows one of the double-deck ‘Summer’ cars that were introduced in 1883 (ref PS01424). Thanks to its inclusion in a nostalgia article in The Hampshire Telegraph and Post in 1935, we know that the photograph was taken in 1897 and that George Felmingham was at the reins. His conductor, stood to the left of their only passenger, was John Arnold. On the corner of the building directly behind the horses, it is just possible to discern the signs for Brockhurst Road and Elson Road, so the tram had evidently just arrived at the Brockhurst terminus of the route, before the horses were led to the opposite end of the car for the return journey to Gosport Hard.
George Felmingham went on to work for Hubert Smith, a Gosport-based operator of horse-drawn brakes and later motor buses who sold his business to Hants & Dorset in September 1924. Felmingham went with the business to Hants & Dorset and became an Inspector at Gosport until his retirement during the early years of the Second World War. If any members or non-members have similar images that they would like to donate to the Society or allow to be photographed or scanned, I should be grateful if you would contact me – Chris Richardsen – using e-mail address ProvSocArchive@gmail.com. |
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