{"id":56442,"date":"2009-12-05T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56442"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:30:23","slug":"loftus-wool-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56442","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Wool Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1232\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1.jpg 1232w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1-402x300.jpg 402w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-1-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1232px) 100vw, 1232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Victoria County History\u00a0 \u2013 A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 1923 \u2013 among the description of Loftus, includes:\u201dA yearly wool fair is held in June.\u201d However William White\u2019s History and Gazetteer 1840 states: \u201dA market is held every Thursday, and fairs for cattle on June 24th and 25th, and on the Thursdays before May-day and Martinmas.\u201d So although we appear to yet another image of Loftus Wool Fair \u2013 it is possible many other activities were going on at the same time, hence the variety of stalls and well dressed nature of all attending. Could this possibly include a hiring fair?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Olive Bennett.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria County History \u2013 A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 1923 \u2013 among the description of Loftus, includes:\u201dA yearly wool fair is held in June.\u201d However William White\u2019s History and Gazetteer 1840 states: \u201dA market is held every Thursday, and fairs for cattle on June 24th and 25th, [&#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-56442","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\/56442","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=56442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56474,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442\/revisions\/56474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}