10,000 APRIL FOOLS
A TRAMCAR QUEUE HOAXED Birmingham holiday makers will long remember April Fool's Day, 1929. The Easter Monday holiday crowd waiting for tramcars to convey them to the Lickey Hills, a popular local beauty spot about ten miles from Birmingham, was so great that from early morning queues seven hundred yards long were waiting. When the crowd was at its thickest, about lunch time, a man in a blue serge suit and bowler hat passed down the queues and informed the waiting crowd that, to relieve th< "ongestiou, the c—poration had docided to run j from the Town Hall. The price for adults, he added, would be the same as on the tramcars, but children would be carried free. Ten thousand people flocked to the Town Hall, only to be told that there were no omnibuses. Then they rem mbered it was April 1. The man in the bowler bat, in the meantime, had obtained a front seat on a tramcar to the Lickey Hills.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3901, 11 June 1929, Page 7
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