The photo, taken by my good friend, Paul Woffindin, of Keighley Road, Trawden, was captured a stone's throw from Paul's home of roadworks on Trawden's Skipton Road. Look carefully at the centre of the picture and you'll see unearthed, for the first time in decades, the original Trawden tram track, laid down in the year 1903.

The pipework for the gas company was soon completed shortly after Paul took his photo and so the glimpse of Trawden's yesteryear is, once more, hidden from view.

The Colne and Trawden Light Railway Company, which ran the first tram cars locally, was begun in 1903 and the route into the village of Trawden was opened in 1904. Many fine picture postcards exist which depict the trams in full glory traversing through Trawden, mainly from the Edwardian era.

Sadly, in June, 1928, the trams were discontinued to Trawden, with buses now the new kings of the road. Fortunately, the village has a small section of the original track still intact today and known as "the Trawden Tramtracks" and I'm certainly most proud of the tramtrack in my "Olde Colne Collection", consisting of a two-foot length (tremendously heavy) from Colne's Albert Road and a one foot length from Trawden's Church Street.