Tramway Exhibition

Sir: The National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire, is looking to extend the current “Tramway Tommies and Clippie Girls” exhibition next year and would love to hear from anyone who has connections relating to the tramways during the First World War.

We want to focus on the personal stories of the men and women who were involved with the tramways, the men fighting abroad and the women who kept the trams running.

We would be delighted to hear from anyone who had a relative who was a tramway employee and went to fight at the front, and might have any personal items belonging to their relatives from this period. We would also be fascinated to hear what happened to your relatives once they came back from the war, did they take up employment again with the tramways, or did they go on to do different jobs?

We will also be remembering those who lost their lives, by making the Tramway Rolls of Honour available to see, which appeared in the regularly published journals of the time.

We hope that people will be able to help us by sharing their family’s tramway stories with us, and the objects that they still have to remember their relatives.

If anyone has anything that could be used, please could they contact our Curator, Laura Waters on 01773 854337 or email: collections@tramway. co.uk . — AMANDA BLAIR, CRICH

TRAMWAY VILLAGE, MATLOCK, DERBYSHIRE DE4 5DP.