Category: 2009-September Issue

Trams were very much a part of the first two decades of my life here in Sydney. I was born in 1937 in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, through which the Lilyfield tram passed. I was taken home a few days later to a house in Birchgrove, which had had its own tram service since the 1917, and in later years to a series of houses in the adjacent suburb of Balmain, which had had its own tram service for much longer, starting with steam trams in the 1890s and changing to electric trams in the first decade of the 20th century.