{"id":6033,"date":"2020-07-27T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=6033"},"modified":"2021-12-18T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T11:01:49","slug":"transport","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/transport-2\/transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond&#8217;s early horse-drawn trams and motor buses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cThe First Monarchs of the Richmond Roads\u201d<\/strong> is a fascinating account of the early horse-drawn trams and motor buses which served Richmond and Kew in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> and early 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. <strong>Written by Fred Windsor<\/strong>, it was originally published in the 1995 issue (no 16) of our annual journal <em>Richmond History<\/em>. Fred records his personal experiences of riding on some of these early \u201cbone-shakers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/First-Monarchs.pdf\">First-Monarchs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/First-Monarchs.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/London_United_Tramways_tram_in_front_of_its_tram-shed_Kew_Road_Richmond_UK_-_c_1900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/London_United_Tramways_tram_in_front_of_its_tram-shed_Kew_Road_Richmond_UK_-_c_1900.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/London_United_Tramways_tram_in_front_of_its_tram-shed_Kew_Road_Richmond_UK_-_c_1900-250x143.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption>London United Tramways tram in front of tram shed, Kew Road, Richmond c.1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred Windsor grew up in Richmond. His book <em>Richmond Boy<\/em> \u2013 <em>Memories of Richmond 1914-1933<\/em>, published by the Society, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/publications\/,\">available from our online bookshop <\/a>or from Kew Bookshop or the Open Book in King Street, Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe First Monarchs of the Richmond Roads\u201d is a fascinating account of the early horse-drawn trams and motor buses which served Richmond and Kew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Written by Fred Windsor, it was originally published in the 1995 issue (no 16) of our annual journal Richmond History. Fred records his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7864,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6033\/revisions\/7870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}