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Description: | This photo shows the tram lines in London Road leading to the tram depot in Gladys Avenue. The house in the centre of the junction is called The Poplars.
The first horse drawn tramway opened in Portsmouth in 1865 and ran from the railway station to Clarence Pier. The system was developed to cover the whole town. In 1902 the corporation bought and took over the running of the tramways and the first electric trams began running on the 24 September 1901.
The Poplars house was the home of Mr AW White a local business man and general manager of the trams. In 1883 in recognition for having spent a good deal of his own money improving the area, the council allowed him to name a road. Gladys Avenue was the name he chose after his daughter who was born that year. Gladys White had a very eventful life written about the Hampshire magazine of January 1980.
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Ref: Gates, W. Portsmouth that has passed.
Gates, W. City of Portsmouth Corporation Records 1835 - 1927.
Francis & Rogers, Portsmouth in Old Picture Postcards. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Gladys Avenue street London Road tram AW White Gladys White | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1910-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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