{"id":45469,"date":"2022-06-24T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45469"},"modified":"2022-06-18T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T12:33:20","slug":"picture-in-time-gateshead-garden-festival-blackpool-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45469","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Gateshead Garden Festival \u2013 Blackpool 167"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to the Gateshead Garden Festival for today\u2019s instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last time out we featured Sunderland 100 and today its time to look at another of the trams which ran during the Gateshead Garden Festival \u2013 <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong> (the other tram \u2013 <strong>Newcastle 102<\/strong> didn\u2019t run on the day of this visit). <strong>167<\/strong> ran 1922 miles during the 157 days of the Festival; like <strong>Sunderland<\/strong> 100 the fact that it was fully enclosed probably helped to keep its miles up (<strong>102<\/strong> had the lowest mileage at 1257).<\/p>\n<p>The Gateshead Garden Festival was a popular visitor attraction with over three million visitors during the five months of opening. Over \u00a350 million was invested in creating the event with the aim of all Garden Festivals being to help contribute towards the regeneration of post-industrial areas of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In this first photo below <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong> is caught outside the depot at the north end of the line. The blue anoraks with red bands worm by the people outside the shed were the uniform of Festival staff and volunteers \u2013 and completely necessary in weather like that on this occasion (it was after all July so what would you expect from a British summer!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.167-db-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.167-db-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.167-db-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.167-db-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.167-db.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then in this photo we see <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong> outside the depot at the Eslington end of the tramway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45471\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45471\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2.167-db-550x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2.167-db-550x364.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2.167-db-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2.167-db-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2.167-db.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to the Gateshead Garden Festival for today\u2019s instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45469"}],"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=45469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45472,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45469\/revisions\/45472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}