We return to Blackpool for our next batch of Picture in Time images as we head back 45 years to 1977 for another excellent set of images from the camera of Donald Brooks.
In this photo we are at a very familiar location for trams, although it looks different today with a platform installed for the modern LRT service, Bold Street in Fleetwood. We are looking at one of 13 OMO trams – no. 10 – which is in the Red and White fleet livery carried at this time. Fitted with a trolley and with the destination blind already set for its return journey south it would appear that
Photograph by Donald Brooks
was operating on the winter Starr Gate to Fleetwood service when captured on camera here.
Taken in January 1977 we see the tram with the North Euston Hotel in the background. The hotel was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1841, when Fleetwood was the northern terminus of rail services from London Euston. Passengers arriving from London connected on to steamers for Scotland, but once it was possible to travel all the way to Glasgow by train the boat service ceased and Fleetwood’s brief heyday was already over in 1848.