Blackpool heritage trams team teas up the jubilee with new afternoon tour and treats

Launching just in time for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Blackpool’s Heritage Trams and the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom are combining experiences with a new Afternoon Tea Tram Tour.

It features an hour-long scenic Heritage tram ride along the Golden Mile before a tasty treat in the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

Emma Tingle, sales and events co-ordinator at Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours, said: “We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to be working alongside the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom to bring the best of Blackpool together in this afternoon tea tour. It’s always been something we have wanted to do and to have the chance to bring two Blackpool icons, plus the very British tradition of afternoon tea, together all in the same tour is very exciting!”

The first afternoon tea experience takes to the rails on Wednesday, June 1, ready for the celebrations of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Visitors can even make the most of the opportunity to dance on the world-famous dance floor, which the Queen herself visited in 1994.

During her seventy year reign the Blackpool Tower Ballroom has welcomed fifteen million visitors, hosted two hundred thousand afternoon teas and served a huge five hundred thousand sandwiches.

For further information and to make a booking visit www.blackpoolheritage.com.

Heritage Tram Tours helps restore, preserve and operate Blackpool’s historic collection of trams on the Promenade. It has an annual calendar of scheduled tours with a range of trams dating back to 1901.