{"id":57169,"date":"2017-09-12T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57169"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:03:45","slug":"bells-pit-miners-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57169","title":{"rendered":"Bell&#8217;s Pit Miners &#8211; 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2398\" height=\"2989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BellsPit-miners-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BellsPit-miners-a-1.jpg 2398w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BellsPit-miners-a-1-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BellsPit-miners-a-1-120x150.jpg 120w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BellsPit-miners-a-1-400x499.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Bell&#8217;s Pit miners leaving the mine in 1935. Joe Metcalfe is identified as holding the handrail at the bottom of the steps. Joe lived at 14 Bell&#8217;s Huts in the 1930&#8217;s; with his wife Clara Jane and George, who was possibly his brother. Can anybody assist with names of the other miners? Margaret Stafford has advised the Archive: &#8220;I am pretty sure the 1st miner at the bottom of the stairs, smiling and looking&nbsp;straight at the camera) is my uncle John (known as Jack of course!)&nbsp;Hicks, born 1909 and then living in Wood Street Carlin How. By 1939 he was&nbsp;living in Loftus, still a miner; married to Mary Hebron with two sons. He&nbsp;died in 1977.His father and father in law were also ironstone miners as&nbsp;were many of my extended family around Marske, New Marske, Skelton.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image and details courtesy of Trevor Metcalfe (grandson of Joe Metcalfe), thanks to Margaret Stafford for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bell&#8217;s Pit miners leaving the mine in 1935. Joe Metcalfe is identified as holding the handrail at the bottom of the steps. Joe lived at 14 Bell&#8217;s Huts in the 1930&#8217;s; with his wife Clara Jane and George, who was possibly his brother. Can anybody assist with names of the other miners? Margaret Stafford [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlin-how-mines","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169","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=57169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78484,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169\/revisions\/78484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}