{"id":63151,"date":"2026-05-24T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63151"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:29:14","slug":"balloon-717-takes-part-in-dementia-action-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63151","title":{"rendered":"Balloon 717 takes part in Dementia Action Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Balloon Car 717<\/strong> has been out on Blackpool Promenade again, this time being hired by Trinity Hospice for a special trip as part of Dementia Action Week. It was out to provide a nostalgic trip along the seafront for a group of Fylde coast residents who live with dementia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hayley Gregory, Marketing and Customer Insight Manager at Blackpool Transport, said: \u201cIt was lovely to see so many smiles as everyone boarded the historic Number <strong>717<\/strong> \u2018Balloon\u2019 Tram at the Pleasure Beach for the return trip to Little Bispham. A lively singalong to \u2018Oh I do like to be beside the seaside\u2019 was also among the highlights of the morning on the tram, and we were delighted to be involved in such a wonderful trip down memory lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elderly passengers were joined by their carers and welcome on board by Blackpool\u2019s Mayor-elect Cllr Danny Scott and Mayoress-elect Cllr Michelle Scott. As well as taking a trip on the tram they enjoyed fish and chips from Papas on the Promenade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63152\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/717-bt.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63152\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/717-bt-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/717-bt-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/717-bt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/717-bt.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor-elect, Councillor Danny Scott and Mayoress-elect, Councillor Michele Scott, join local people living with dementia for a nostalgic trip on one of Blackpool\u2019s heritage trams. (Photograph courtesy of Blackpool Transport)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloon Car 717 has been out on Blackpool Promenade again, this time being hired by Trinity Hospice for a special trip as part of Dementia Action Week. It was out to provide a nostalgic trip along the seafront for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63151\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151"}],"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=63151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63153,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151\/revisions\/63153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}