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Sunday School Procession in Stanley St, Brisbane. 24 May 1877

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The Brisbane Courier
Tuesday 19 March 1867

Albert-Street Wesleyan Sabbath School>

[…] Notwithstanding the peculiarly untoward circumstances through which the colony has been, and now is, passing, our numbers have not in the aggregate diminished, a small increase having taken place during the year. The constant changing of residence which has occurred of late (occassioned by the inability of many of the parents of our children to obtain a living in Brisbane or its suburbs) has produced a prejudicial effect upon some of our schools, necessitating the removal of a large number of scholars; but this same circumstance has brought into the neighborhood of our other schools new arrivals, who have replaced those who have gone to other parts of the colony to reside, and thus our numbers have been balanced. Out staff of teachers, though not thoroughly adequate to the onerous task of instructing so many children,

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Photograph by C. Poulsen of horse drawn trams in Brisbane's Queen Street in the early 1890s

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HAVE you ever wondered where the word tram derived
its name?

In the 18th century, when the demand for coal increased and
the traffic became greater, flat iron plates were fitted to the
faces of the wooden ‘rails’ to lessen the heavy wear and tear
and t(he cost of replacement.

Then an intelligent individual, perhaps one of the horse-drivers,
further improved the track by introducing a turned-up. edge or
trammel- from which the word tram is taken— to keep the
wheels from slipping off.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 436317, Photographic material

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