{"id":54923,"date":"2009-09-28T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54923"},"modified":"2021-01-30T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T18:54:53","slug":"coronation-road-loftus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54923","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Road, Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1925\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1.jpg 1925w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1-481x300.jpg 481w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_153-1-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1925px) 100vw, 1925px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A George Skilbeck postcard view of Coronation Road taken from the east these are the private houses, we were unsure if it was a clear enough\u00a0 picture to see if the council houses were there when it was taken. Norman Patton tells us: \u201dThe picture would be taken around the early 1950s. The VHF television aerials started to be common place about that time, events such as the Coronation and Stanley Matthew\u2019s Cup winner\u2019s medal with Blackpool shown from Wembley! the \u201ccouncil houses\u201d were built quite a while before this, perhaps even late 30s.\u201d Margaret Atkinson tells us: \u201dMy gran and mam were first tenants to move they lived at no 11 that was 1939 their name was Meggie Trevor.\u201d The 1939 Census (taken at the outbreak of the Second World War) tells us that Meggie and her son Arthur were resident at 11 Coronation Road. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Ken Johnson and many thanks to Norman Patton and Margaret Atkinson for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A George Skilbeck postcard view of Coronation Road taken from the east these are the private houses, we were unsure if it was a clear enough picture to see if the council houses were there when it was taken. Norman Patton tells us: \u201dThe picture would be taken around the early 1950s. The VHF [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-west","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923","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=54923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66124,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923\/revisions\/66124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}