{"id":53996,"date":"2013-11-23T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53996"},"modified":"2019-12-18T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:57:26","slug":"skelton-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53996","title":{"rendered":"Skelton Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1.jpg\" alt=\"Skelton Castle\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1.jpg 1591w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1-470x300.jpg 470w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/30-skelton-castle-1-400x255.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This hand tinted view in the Phoenix Series by Britain and Wright of Skelton Castle is postmarked 1910; Skelton Castle was for many years a &#8216;must see&#8217; view, featuring in many scenic views of the Saltburn and Skelton area. The present <\/strong><strong>castle was built in 1788 to replace the previous Norman\u00a0castle and originally the home of the de Brus family to a design by Sir John Soane\u00a0 for the then estate owner John Hall-Stevenson; who changed his name to Wharton in the same year (probably at the suggestion of his rich aunt Margaret Wharton whose estate he inherited in 1791.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Peter Appleton, Tina Dowey and Kim Whaley and additional information courtesy of Bill Danby \u201dHistory of Skelton in Cleveland\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>This hand tinted view in the Phoenix Series by Britain and Wright of Skelton Castle is postmarked 1910; Skelton Castle was for many years a &#8216;must see&#8217; view, featuring in many scenic views of the Saltburn and Skelton area. The present castle was built in 1788 to replace the previous Norman castle and originally [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guisborough-and-skelton-area","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53996","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=53996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61082,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53996\/revisions\/61082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}