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This web site is NOT connected to
Blackburn Transport. To visit the Official Blackburn Transport Web
Site for details of services etc go [here] |
| The 'Blackburn Transport' name, text, titles etc and all Blackburn Transport logos contained within this website are used with the permission and authorisation of Blackburn Borough Transport Limited. |
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| SOURCES of INFORMATION: |
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| Thanks for their help and assistance to the following: |
| Rosemary Thacker - Librarian, National
Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire |
| Sources of information: |
| Blackburn Corporation Council Minutes -
Blackburn Library Lancashire Evening Telegraph Blackburn Times Blackburn Weekly Telegraph Northern Daily Telegraph Blackburn Herald Blackburn Express Transport World - Crich Museum archives “Tramways of North Lancashire” by J.C.Gillham and W.H.Brett “Tramways of Accrington” by R.W.Rush “A Farewell to Blackburn’s Trams” Blackburn Transport, published September 1949 “Meeting Blackburn’s Trams” by Ian Yearsley (Modern Tramway - 1966) “My Fifty Years in Transport” by A.G.Grundy (Transport World - 1944) “Blackburn and Darwen Tramways” by N.N.Forbes (Modern Tramways - 1942) “History of Steam Trams” by H.A.Whitcombe “The British Steam Tram” by J.S.Webb Crich Museum Archives Ex-Blackburn Corporation Tramway and Omnibus Employees |
Scale drawings and Intack depot plan by Terry Russell. Lithograph maps reproduced by kind permission of J.C.Gillam |
| Photographs: |
| Photographs from authors private collection and from the following photographers: David Packer, Ian Yearsley, F.N.T. Lloyd-Jones (courtesy David Packer), R.S.J.Wiseman, John Meredith, C.Carter, J.C.Gillham, J.S.Webb (courtesy Dennis Gill) and W.A.’Cam’ Camwell (courtesy Stan Letts) |
| Photographs of the following are courtesy of the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire: H.B.Priestly, R.R.Clark, N.N.Forbes, R.B.Parr, S.L.Smith, S.N.J.White, I.R.Davidson and N.G.Wellings |
| Photographs also from the collections of: Blackburn Library, Lancashire Evening Telegraph, Blackburn Museum, Dennis Moran and Peter Worden |