Eastbourne on Film: Eastbourne Electric Tramway 1969

We’re pleased to continue our partnership with Screen Archive South East to offer our reader a glimpse into their collection. Each month, we bring you a snippet from the archive, all filmed right here in Eastbourne.
Here we see one of the last trips of the Eastbourne miniature tram that used to run between Princes Park and the Crumbles on a two foot gauge. These purpose-built half-size trams were built by Claude Lane, a manufacturer of battery electric vehicles, and operated from 1956 to 1969 before moving to Seaton in Devon. Other miniature trains and towns are captured in this delightful film made by a 10 year old budding filmmaker.
Screen Archive South East is a publicly-funded regional film archive serving the South East of England and its six local authorities: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Medway, Surrey and West Sussex. Established in 1992 by the University of Brighton, the British Film Institute and a consortium of local authorities, SASE is dedicated to collecting, preserving, digitising, cataloguing and providing public and commercial access to its screen collection of films, videotapes, lantern slides and digital files. Its collection of over 25,000 items documents the rise of screen culture in the region and the nation and represents primarily the changing nature of life in the South East from the late 19th century to the present day.
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[@QPRTokyo]

I vaguely remember going on the tram.

[@breathfocused5472]

lovely do you have anymore of theses?

[@MrJJuK]

they need something like this going up and down the seafront to replace the dotto train.