{"id":53546,"date":"2016-06-28T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53546"},"modified":"2016-08-28T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:09:34","slug":"roller-skating-at-redcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53546","title":{"rendered":"Roller Skating at Redcar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c.jpg\" alt=\"Roller Skating at Redcar\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c-768x481.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c-600x376.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img008-c-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes it\u2019s the skating rink at Redcar, pity it isn\u2019t still there, but with &#8216;elf and safety&#8217; now you would have to wear helmets, knee pads, elbow pads; too tired to skate by the time you had got ready. This postcard view from the late 1950s or early 1960s, shows plenty of use. Fred Brunskill tells us: \u201dThe roller skating rink was on the site of the old outdoor swimming baths in the Coatham Enclosure and were built at a cost of \u00a3 10,000 and opened in 1951 to commemorate the Festival of Britain.\u201d Alan Franks tells us: &#8220;I remember it well, I used to go skating in the early to mid 1950s here as a lad. We used to skate as fast as we could round and round trying to impress the girls. It didn\u2019t really work.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Iris Place and many thanks to Fred Brunskill, Alan Franks and Alan Collins for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Yes it\u2019s the skating rink at Redcar, pity it isn\u2019t still there, but with &#8216;elf and safety&#8217; now you would have to wear helmets, knee pads, elbow pads; too tired to skate by the time you had got ready. This postcard view from the late 1950s or early 1960s, shows plenty of use. Fred [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redcar-and-marske","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53546","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=53546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53779,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53546\/revisions\/53779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}