{"id":38493,"date":"2021-03-03T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38493"},"modified":"2021-02-27T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T12:52:37","slug":"still-standing-derby-rosette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38493","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing! Derby Rosette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue this series where we take a look at surviving structures and artefacts from the UK\u2019s first generation tramways we are in the East Midlands where we look up again and find another rosette.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we have seen in this series previously if you take a look up when working around many UK towns and cities you will find some rosettes where the overhead wires of tramways \u2013 and possibly trolleybus routes too \u2013 were attached when it wasn\u2019t possible or desirable for overhead poles to be erected in the street. This latest example can be found in Victoria Street, Derby.<\/p>\n<p>Trams first started running in Derby in 1880 with Derby Corporation Tramways taking over on 1<sup>st<\/sup> November 1899. Initially operated by horses it was electrified from July 1904 and the line along Victoria Street saw its first electric trams on 4<sup>th<\/sup> September of the same year. The system closed on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> July 1934 with the route along Victoria Street one of the last to succumb.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38494\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38494\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38494\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/derbyrosette-fb-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/derbyrosette-fb-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/derbyrosette-fb-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/derbyrosette-fb.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rosette on Victoria Street is seen here towards the top of the image on the right hand side of the image. (Photograph by Frank Bagshaw)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue this series where we take a look at surviving structures and artefacts from the UK\u2019s first generation tramways we are in the East Midlands where we look up again and find another rosette.<\/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\/38493"}],"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=38493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38495,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38493\/revisions\/38495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}