One final trip to the Fylde Coast before “Picture in Time” moves on and we’re in Fleetwood again for another Tram Sunday image.
This photo shows Bolton 66 running along North Albert Street and passing Fleetwood Library. The library building was still pretty new at the time of this image with it opening in 1988, just the year previous to this image being captured. The location that the tram is passing is the site of where the modern day Victoria Street tramstop is found.
As for 66 it had been a regular sight on the Blackpool Tramway having been the first “foreign” tram to arrive in 1981, ahead of the Centenary of the Tramway four years later. It hasn’t left since and is still to be found there, last seen in Tramtown (the former Fitting Shop). It last ran in 2024.
Photograph by Tony Stevenson, 1989