{"id":53269,"date":"2013-01-18T23:01:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53269"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:05:02","slug":"morrisons-mine-brotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53269","title":{"rendered":"Morrison&#8217;s Mine, Brotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001.jpg\" alt=\"Morrison\u2019s Mine\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001-768x446.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001-600x349.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001-150x87.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img028.tif-001-400x233.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A view of Morrison\u2019s Mine and Coach Road, Brotton. Morrison\u2019s was an independently owned mine; output was at the requirements of the Ironmasters \u2013 so could be a little or a lot depending upon demand \u2013 so called as it was developed by Robert Morrison (he lived in The Grange, Brotton), imagine having this in your back yard? There was also a brickworks! The shafts were named after Robert Morrison\u2019s wife (Florence) and&nbsp; his daughter (Mary). The overhead gantry was situated about where the children\u2019s play area is on Coach Road today, but there are effectively no remains to indicate this industrial past. Liam White comments: &#8220;My ancestor, John Smithson worked at Morrison\u2019s Mine. Not much more is known about him but I\u2019m about to do some research.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy George Pearson, thanks to Liam White for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A view of Morrison\u2019s Mine and Coach Road, Brotton. Morrison\u2019s was an independently owned mine; output was at the requirements of the Ironmasters \u2013 so could be a little or a lot depending upon demand \u2013 so called as it was developed by Robert Morrison (he lived in The Grange, Brotton), imagine having this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brotton-mines","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72571,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53269\/revisions\/72571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}