All that's left

of the transport system that brought a huge expansion in London's suburbs a hundred or so years ago. Trams formed the backbone, along with the railways, of the system that carried workers in and out of London. Tramway Avenue still leads to this site, where new houses were built not too long ago, on the old depot which housed trams, later trolley buses then Routemaster double deckers. On the end wall of the terraced houses, these lugs are all that's left of the cable system that brought electricity supply to the early vehicles.