This is part of a collection of films made by butcher and amateur filmmaker Henry Foster of York.  The film shows a host of tram and tram routes around York, around the 16th November, 1935. Title – York Amateur Film Society Presents Title – The Last Days of THE YORK TRAM… Title – The Lord Mayor drives the No 1 which was the last car home accompanied by Mr. Asher (General Manger) and Mr. Horton (Traffic Manager) Title – The Museum Gardens There is a brief look at the Museum Gardens in York...

This is part of a collection of films made by butcher and amateur filmmaker Henry Foster of York.  The film shows a host of tram and tram routes around York, around the 16th November, 1935. Title – York Amateur Film Society Presents Title – The Last Days of THE YORK TRAM… Title – The Lord Mayor drives the No 1 which was the last car home accompanied by Mr. Asher (General Manger) and Mr. Horton (Traffic Manager) Title – The Museum Gardens There is a brief look at the Museum Gardens in York before the film shows the conductor and driver posing with the number 19 tram, which is then seen going down the middle of a street.  The tram is signed for Haxby Road.  This is followed by an open top number 30 tram, displaying a Bovril advertisement, followed by a number 29 coming from Acomb Road, passing the Fox Inn on Holgate and a van for “Crow Bros. Pork Butcher’s”.  An inspector stands in front of a telephone kiosk at the junction where Holgate Road divides into Acomb Road and Poppleton Road.  Behind him are advertisement hoardings for Guinness and Marmite.  A tram stops at a stop in front of a shop advertising “Will’s God Flakes”, next to another shop, “Grays, Coney Street.”  Here passengers disembark from the back from the tram.    The film switches back to the Museum Gardens, where a school party are walking around the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey. Title – York  The Hospitium. The school children are seen walking down the steps on the outside of the Hospitium in the Museum Gardens.  Following this are quick shots of the rest of the gardens. Saint Helen’s Square is decorated with flags and bunting.  Trams are then seen outside York Railway Station and going through the bar at Station Road where they are accompanied by a group of cyclists.  Several other trams are seen around the city centre, as well as some buses.   There are many men, both on foot and on cycles, who are leaving though factory gates.  Others can be seen making their way down the large hill in the background.  (This is possibly the York Carriage Works factory, Holgate.)  Again there are many trams on the road at the gates as well as lorries and other traffic being directed by a policeman.  Two lorries go past carrying what looks like sugar beet.   A conductor and driver pose next to a tram with a destination of South Bank.  Trams are seen passing many other places in York, including the Beeswing Hotel, going past and through Walmgate, around High Ousegate.  They are also shown on Albermarle Road, going towards Fulford, on Bishopthorpe road, and the last tram being driven by the Lord Mayor going into the bus depot in Fulford.  (Tram route Tower Street – Fishergate – Fulford.)  The film ends with a conductor on the back of the tram.