{"id":33823,"date":"2021-01-26T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:26:52","slug":"tram-pub-signs-bispham-hotel-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33823","title":{"rendered":"Tram Pub Signs: Bispham Hotel, Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pub that we mentioned when first taking a look at pub signs but didn\u2019t illustrate it at the time \u2013 but remedy that now! The Bispham Hotel in Red Bank Road, Blackpool is located adjacent to the entrance to the Sainsbury\u2019s store which is on the site of the old Bispham tram depot and so it doesn\u2019t take a lot of working out as to why there may be a tram on the sign!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sign features a Balloon Car in a representation that is definitely better than some of the other entries into this series we have seen! Carrying the 1980s green and cream livery style that means that this particular sign would not have seen trams trundling past but it is still a good acknowledgment of the history of the area.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33824\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33824\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33824\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33824\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33824\" title=\"bispham-jh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bispham-jh-550x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bispham-jh-550x523.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bispham-jh-1024x973.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bispham-jh.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign seen in 1995. (Photograph by John Hampton)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pub that we mentioned when first taking a look at pub signs but didn\u2019t illustrate it at the time \u2013 but remedy that now! The Bispham Hotel in Red Bank Road, Blackpool is located adjacent to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823"}],"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=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37409,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions\/37409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}