{"id":55418,"date":"2009-10-28T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55418"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:41:19","slug":"loftus-forge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55418","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Forge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1.jpg 973w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1-380x300.jpg 380w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Loftus-Forge-1-400x316.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Believed to be Harry Wrightson blacksmith at Loftus Forge in 1900, with John Ward Hopper (who was apprenticed to Harry Wrightson) on the left. John Ward Hopper was the Grandfather of Maurice Toulson of the Loftus Town Crier.&nbsp;Loftus Forge was built by Lord Zetland at the turn of the century, in what was then his timber yard, with his estate office nearby. The forge was rented to Mr John Wrightson for \u00a315 per year. John Smith advised us: &#8220;I\u2019d question this as Harry wasn\u2019t born until 1901 in Guisborough (unless there is another Harry). It might be his Father, John or the date may be incorrect? Harry was my Grandmother\u2019s cousin and I remember going to stay at the forge in the 1960\u2019s.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The gentleman holding the horse is unknown. Can you help?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Olive Bennett and thanks to John Smith and Mary Thewlis for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p>Believed to be Harry Wrightson blacksmith at Loftus Forge in 1900, with John Ward Hopper (who was apprenticed to Harry Wrightson) on the left. John Ward Hopper was the Grandfather of Maurice Toulson of the Loftus Town Crier.&nbsp;Loftus Forge was built by Lord Zetland at the turn of the century, in what was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-central","category-loftus-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55418","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=55418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78946,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55418\/revisions\/78946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}