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Click the link to listen.  The Bloomfield Talks team, on a visit to the Transport Depot, explore the Rocket, an old illuminated tram which has now been “retired”.

Do you remember the Rocket?  What did you think of it?  Creepy? Brilliant?  Tell us your memories below.

Riding the illuminated rocket as a child.

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Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, talks about the making of the feature cars (decorated trams used in the Illuminations) in the 1960s.