{"id":25688,"date":"2019-01-22T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25688"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:14:22","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25688","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stay in Fleetwood for this week\u2019s offering from the Blackpool Tramway archives as we have another photo of a tram which we can\u2019t quite identify!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What we do know is that in this photo we are looking at one of the iconic Blackpool Balloon trams which is heading back to Pleasure Beach as it heads through the streets of Fleetwood which at the time of this photo was the only place you could see trams on a British street. The fleet number \u2013 which is in gold on the green section just below the drivers window \u2013 can\u2019t quite be made out but does possibly end in a 2. The Balloon is in the standard green and cream livery and is running with a trolley.<\/p>\n<p>Also in this photo are plenty of period vehicles including a National North Western bus \u2013 registration number SJA 366J \u2013 which probably dates this photo to the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25689\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25689\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25689\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25689\" title=\"balloon-pg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/balloon-pg-550x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/balloon-pg-550x352.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/balloon-pg-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/balloon-pg.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Peter Gough<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stay in Fleetwood for this week\u2019s offering from the Blackpool Tramway archives as we have another photo of a tram which we can\u2019t quite identify!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25691,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions\/25691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}