{"id":43001,"date":"2021-12-19T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43001"},"modified":"2021-12-18T14:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:27:02","slug":"15-years-apart-bolton-66-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43001","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Bolton 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the only non-Blackpool tram to be part of the operational heritage in Blackpool that features in this latest edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bolton 66<\/strong> has now been in Blackpool for an incredible 40 years and when we captured it on camera on 9<sup>th<\/sup> September 2006 it was carrying special illuminations to add a little bit of extra interest for the annual Illuminations in the town. This includes a star with the number <strong>66<\/strong> between the decks and a sponsorship shield on the front dash. At this point in time it also had further external advertising for Acdo. The location is Tower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.66-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.66-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.66-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.66-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.66-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the time this second photo was taken \u2013 25<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021 \u2013 the external advertising (and illuminations) had been removed giving the tram a much cleaner look as we see it here at Cabin heading south to Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43003\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43003\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43003\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.66-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.66-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.66-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.66-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.66-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the only non-Blackpool tram to be part of the operational heritage in Blackpool that features in this latest edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001"}],"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=43001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43004,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001\/revisions\/43004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}