Two to the Valley*
When I was a young kid, my Mum used to take us to see her great Aunt who lived in Terrace Street, New Farm, Brisbane. She ran a "reputable" men's boarding house apart from the fly encrusted fly paper that used to hang above what seemed to be a stew constantly bubbling on the stove!
To get there, we would catch a steam train to Brunswick Street station (now rightfully named Fortitude Valley after the suburb in which it is located) then catch a New Farm tram (there were two destinations) and hop off in Brunswick Street near where her street intersected. The walk to the house was probably longer than the tram ride.
It is likely that we would have ridden in one of Brisbane's drop centre (old), FM (medium) or FM Phoenix (youngest) trams in which this shot is taken, actually no. 554 preserved at the Brisbane Tramway Museum Society.
The Brisbane tramway system had its last day on Sunday 13 April 1969.
* Those people old enough who hail from Brisbane will know that the colloquialism "Two to the Valley" was a two fingered salute, not unlike the V salute often seen being made by Winston Churchill, but in our case the fingers were reversed and not meant as a polite gesture! These days that salute has been replaced by one finger or physical assaults and road rage, we must have been politer back then!
Two to the Valley*
When I was a young kid, my Mum used to take us to see her great Aunt who lived in Terrace Street, New Farm, Brisbane. She ran a "reputable" men's boarding house apart from the fly encrusted fly paper that used to hang above what seemed to be a stew constantly bubbling on the stove!
To get there, we would catch a steam train to Brunswick Street station (now rightfully named Fortitude Valley after the suburb in which it is located) then catch a New Farm tram (there were two destinations) and hop off in Brunswick Street near where her street intersected. The walk to the house was probably longer than the tram ride.
It is likely that we would have ridden in one of Brisbane's drop centre (old), FM (medium) or FM Phoenix (youngest) trams in which this shot is taken, actually no. 554 preserved at the Brisbane Tramway Museum Society.
The Brisbane tramway system had its last day on Sunday 13 April 1969.
* Those people old enough who hail from Brisbane will know that the colloquialism "Two to the Valley" was a two fingered salute, not unlike the V salute often seen being made by Winston Churchill, but in our case the fingers were reversed and not meant as a polite gesture! These days that salute has been replaced by one finger or physical assaults and road rage, we must have been politer back then!