LCC Trams, Shilling All Day


Fondly remembered by many, the 'Shilling All Day' LCC tramways ticket.
This one for January 1927, showing ticket availability on the reverse.

The famous Shilling All Day ticket was introduced in 1925 as an answer to the competition from the motor bus rivals. London Transport carried on with them during the war. They were issued after 9.30am on Mondays to Fridays. People travelled all over with these tickets, some seeing just how many miles they could clock up. Others just taking a day out in the summer, to Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest or Abbey Wood, taking a picnic with them. When the trolleybuses came they were available on those as well. As the poster above says 390 cars an hour pass the oval. It was rumoured that for a shilling you could watch the best part of a days cricket at the oval from the top of a tram by riding past then getting one back the other way.

Ticket from the collection of Steve Thoroughgood



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