{"id":61369,"date":"2010-01-06T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=61369"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:07:36","slug":"loftus-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=61369","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Drift."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1519\" height=\"1077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61368\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4110275689223057;width:738px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1.jpg 1519w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1-423x300.jpg 423w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Loftus-10-a-1-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1519px) 100vw, 1519px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>This is a similar shot to the other image of the Loftus Drift, but taken from farther back. Why the two police officers were present we didn\u2019t know. Sheila Harris suggested: &#8220;My guess is that this is a strike. It is unlikely that so many men would be free to pose in any other circumstances. The police would be there to protect the owner\u2019s interests.&#8221; However, David Richardson advises: &#8220;Outside what was the original main drift into Loftus mine which later became a traveling way when the North drift was opened further up the valley. There are 34 Mine Workers and 2 policemen visible in the photograph and while it is unusual that the police men are with them (maybe because of a strike as has been already mentioned) I have seen at least six different group photographs taken outside this drift so it wasn\u2019t to uncommon an occurrence. In one of these other photographs the group totalled 41.&#8221; Perhaps their comments, are the definitive reason for the police being present.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of the David Linton and Pem Holliday Collections, thanks also to Sheila Harris and David Richardson for their updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a similar shot to the other image of the Loftus Drift, but taken from farther back. Why the two police officers were present we didn\u2019t know. Sheila Harris suggested: &#8220;My guess is that this is a strike. It is unlikely that so many men would be free to pose in any other [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skinningrove-mines","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369","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=61369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79330,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions\/79330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}