Blackpool goes abundance on trams
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TRAM fever is busting out all over Blackpool. The council is celebrating in a big way 100 years of electric traction, with 10 "visiting" historic trams ranging in age from 1885 to 1950. There will be nine open days and events from May 18 to centenary day, September 29.
For those, if any, who eat as well as sleep trams, Wedgwood Hotelware is producing a plate costing £29.50 and depicting five trams spanning the years from 1885 to 1984. It was designed by W. D. Peirse, headmaster of a local school whom, I hope, makes his pupils also toe the line.
Joy will be unconfined if the transport department can trace a photograph taken on October 27, 1937, of the Duke of Kent touring Blackpool's lights in an illuminated lifeboat tram in which he then rode to the North Station to catch his train.