{"id":53576,"date":"2010-04-23T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53576"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:11:56","slug":"the-jolly-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53576","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Jolly Boys&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1.jpg\" alt=\"'The Jolly Boys'\" width=\"1830\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1.jpg 1830w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1-426x300.jpg 426w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Jolly-Boys.-1-400x282.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1830px) 100vw, 1830px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A very formal photograph taken by the Services Studio in Middlesbrough. \u201dThe Jolly Boys\u201d are now known to have been an amateur singing group, mainly Methodist and not military as we first thought. The only other clue in the image is the footwear \u2013 lace-up boots instead of shoes, so probably pre-1918. Back row: ??, ??, ??, ??.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Front row: Mr Heseldine, ??, Fred Nicholson, Joe Agar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Nicholson advised us: &#8220;\u2018The Jolly Boys\u2019 were an amateur singing group (not military but mainly Methodist).<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> I know two men here:- Mr Heseldine, front row left; Fred Nicholson, front row, third from left.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Image courtesy of Loftus Library, thanks to Tony Nicholson for the updated information.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A very formal photograph taken by the Services Studio in Middlesbrough. \u201dThe Jolly Boys\u201d are now known to have been an amateur singing group, mainly Methodist and not military as we first thought. The only other clue in the image is the footwear \u2013 lace-up boots instead of shoes, so probably pre-1918. Back row: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choir-and-bands","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53576","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=53576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53577,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53576\/revisions\/53577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}