{"id":60974,"date":"2010-02-21T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60974"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:41:33","slug":"victoria-terrace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60974","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3606\" height=\"2352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60872\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5336927223719676;width:830px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1.jpg 3606w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1-460x300.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/victoria-terrace-1890-1-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3606px) 100vw, 3606px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <strong>A wonderful view of Victoria Terrace in about 1900. In those days the residents would have a view over open farmland to the front. Note the gentleman in bowler hat and tail coat standing in the road talking,&nbsp; Obviously no buses or speeding traffic! Peter King asked:&#8221;I lived at number 8 in the 1940s. When did they take the railings down?&#8221; In this image the iron railings are still present, it is likely that the railings were removed as part of the &#8216;war effort&#8217; in the early part of WWII. There are however, conflicting stories as to the usefulness or actual use of such collected materials. Jean Wiggins advised the Archive: &#8220;To the rear was once a candle factory or tallow house, it was closed in 1871 when East Crescent was being built, because of the foul smell emanating from the boiling fat.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Image courtesy of Michael Kilvington, update courtesy of Jean Wiggins and thanks to Peter King for that update.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p> A wonderful view of Victoria Terrace in about 1900. In those days the residents would have a view over open farmland to the front. Note the gentleman in bowler hat and tail coat standing in the road talking,&nbsp; Obviously no buses or speeding traffic! Peter King asked:&#8221;I lived at number 8 in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-east","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974","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=60974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78589,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions\/78589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}