{"id":21124,"date":"2018-03-16T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21124"},"modified":"2018-03-16T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:08:55","slug":"liverpool-tram-to-honour-sir-ken-dodd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21124","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool tram to honour Sir Ken Dodd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society have been seeking input on an idea recently put forward that <strong>Liverpool 762 <\/strong>be named after the late Sir Ken Dodd. As well as being a comedy legend, Ken Dodd was also a local boy who had been an honoury ambassador of the Birkenhead heritage tramway, having appeared on a BBC documentary programme entitled &#8216;The Golden Age of Trams&#8217; a few years ago riding on <strong>762<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sir Ken had a tram route near his home at Knotty Ash (yes its a real place!) and had often told stories of his fond memories of using the tram services to get to his gigs at Liverpool and Birkenhead in the early years of his remarkable career in comedy.<\/p>\n<p>No final decision has yet been made regarding whether <strong>Liverpool 762 <\/strong>will be named &#8216;Ken Dodd&#8217;, but early signs are that most people seem to be in favour of the idea. There is some debate, however, as to where a name should be placed on the vehicle &#8211; some people wish a name to be prominently displayed on the exterior so that it can be seen by as many people as possible, whilst others have expressed the view that an internal plaque would be more appropriate to preserve the tram&#8217;s historic appearance. Whatever is ultimately decided, it seems that this Merseyside hero will be remembered for many years with help from his local tramway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society have been seeking input on an idea recently put forward that Liverpool 762 be named after the late Sir Ken Dodd. As well as being a comedy legend, Ken Dodd was also a local boy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21125,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions\/21125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}