{"id":35161,"date":"2020-08-11T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35161"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:37:57","slug":"still-standing-more-tram-rosettes-in-oldham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35161","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing! More tram rosettes in Oldham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously had a quick look at tram rosettes on buildings in Oldham\u2019s Union Street in this series but we return to the same location for this edition to take another look at some more survivors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When rosettes were originally installed there was not only the main rosette used to hold the support wire for the overhead but also a guard rosette. The guard rosettes were used to prevent any domestic supply electricity cables from coming into contact with the tramway overhead as if that had happened it wouldn\u2019t have been pleasant for anyone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35162\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35162\" title=\"1.union-wb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.union-wb-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.union-wb-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.union-wb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.union-wb-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.union-wb.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35163\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35163\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35163\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35163\" title=\"2.union-wb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.union-wb-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.union-wb-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.union-wb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.union-wb-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.union-wb.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two views of guard rosettes on Union Street in Oldham Town Centre. (Both Photographs by William Brown, 19th November 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously had a quick look at tram rosettes on buildings in Oldham\u2019s Union Street in this series but we return to the same location for this edition to take another look at some more survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35161"}],"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=35161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35165,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35161\/revisions\/35165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}