{"id":55450,"date":"2014-11-06T18:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55450"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:14:42","slug":"high-street-loftus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55450","title":{"rendered":"High Street, Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55449\" style=\"width:733px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a-477x300.jpg 477w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img654-a-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The end of Loftus High Street looking towards the Market Place, about 1920. The shops were: a small general dealers, Mr Robinson\u2019s bike and&nbsp; electrical shop, then came Finlay&#8217;s sweet shop. Can we date it by the pram? The gap in the wall on the right hand side was for a horse trough that was fed by a natural spring. Eric Johnson says \u201dThe first shop has the name S. Jackson on the sign. Kelly\u2019s Directory of the North Riding for 1905, lists: \u2019Jackson, Sarah (Mrs), shopkeeper, 43 High Street Loftus\u201d. Jean Wiggins tells us od this image: &#8220;Granny Jackson is standing outside Jackson&#8217;s grocer&#8217;s on the corner of Dam Street. The middle shop is &#8216;Sappy&#8217; Watson&#8217;s barbers and the next is Finlay&#8217;s provisions.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This view of the High Street, from the end of Arlington Street, shows two ladies viewing the shop window; whilst possibly preparing to push the pram up to the Market Place. With the weight of prams in those days, a good push!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mary Bielby and Olive Bennett, many thanks to Jean Wiggins for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>The end of Loftus High Street looking towards the Market Place, about 1920. The shops were: a small general dealers, Mr Robinson\u2019s bike and&nbsp; electrical shop, then came Finlay&#8217;s sweet shop. Can we date it by the pram? The gap in the wall on the right hand side was for a horse trough that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-market-place","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55450","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=55450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79140,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55450\/revisions\/79140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}