{"id":60199,"date":"2010-08-20T21:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60199"},"modified":"2024-02-02T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:27:13","slug":"saltburn-cliff-lift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60199","title":{"rendered":"Saltburn Cliff Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60198\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2342733188720174;width:804px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1-370x300.jpg 370w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1-150x122.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SALTBURN-22-a-1-400x325.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Not the hydraulic funicular we know and love today, but the original vertical lift \u2013 quite a scary contraption, no wonder they changed it! Another thought how often do you see a beach cleaner on the beach these days? We can now date this image as between 1870 and 1883 from the following details: \u201dTalk of the Town\u201d \u2013 Saltburn\u2019s Free Monthly Magazine informs: \u201dA wooden vertical hoist designed by the Resident Engineer John Anderson of the Saltburn Improvement Company was opened to the public on 1st July 1870 and continued in use for 13 years before becoming unsafe and was demolished. The hoist had proved a need to ease the public access between the upper and lower promenades and after seeing the success of Scarborough\u2019s Cliff Railway a decision was taken to build a similar railway at Saltburn-by-the-sea\u201d. Information supplied by Cath and Tony Lynn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mike Holliday and additional information courtesy of Cath and Tony Lynn for \u201dTalk of the Town\u201d Saltburn.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not the hydraulic funicular we know and love today, but the original vertical lift \u2013 quite a scary contraption, no wonder they changed it! Another thought how often do you see a beach cleaner on the beach these days? We can now date this image as between 1870 and 1883 from the following details: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saltburn","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199","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=60199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78048,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions\/78048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}