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Mrs Jean Smith wrote:- My maiden name was Fraser and I was born in 1943. I have one sister Jill who was born six years later in 1949 and our address was 18 Solway Road, East Dulwich, S.E.22.
Every Sunday morning my dad took us to visit our Nan and Granddad, who lived in some flats at Kennington Lane. We took the tram from the Kings Arms, Peckham Rye, along East Dulwich Road, up Dog Kennel Hill, towards the Walworth Road, and then down to the Elephant and Castle.
There we bought our weekly comics and newspapers, outside the Tube Station. I can remember on trams, when they reached the final stage of their journey the conductor went around turning the backs of seats round the other way for the return journey (so that passengers would be facing the direction of travel).
When walking across the road we had to be very careful as you could get a foot stuck in the trams lines. One story which my mum always told me, is that when I was very small coming back from a pantomime on the tram I was most upset as another passenger had placed himself in 'My usually seat'.
I cried and kicked the back of his seat all the way to the Kings Arms.
What was rather nice last year on a visit to the London Transport Museum I was able to show my two grandchildren my favourite seat on the tram. At least in those days you hardly got any traffic jams, only perhaps the odd horse and cart holding up the trams.
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