{"id":62944,"date":"2010-03-21T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62944"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:01:27","slug":"tom-george-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=62944","title":{"rendered":"Tom George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tom-George-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62943\" width=\"570\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tom-George-a-1.jpg 810w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tom-George-a-1-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tom-George-a-1-101x150.jpg 101w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tom-George-a-1-400x593.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>After making the comment about Tom George\u2019s height\u00a0on the Post Liverton Mines chapel, Ray Brown asked his daughter Iris Knight if the Archive could post this image. Tom was employed on Skinningrove Iron works, and by the look of it he was in the platelayers gang.\u00a0He sports a hammer that was used to relocate the\u00a0wooden chocks that had come out of the rail chairs.\u00a0I think you will agree that he was a tall man for his time, but very much a gentle giant. Tom was very well known in both Liverton Mines and Loftus. Jen Trembath tells us: \u201dI believe the man he is with to be my uncle \u2013 Horace Trembath \u2013 who lived in Skinningrove\u201d. Richard Barnes asked: &#8220;If I remember rightly did he not run a little shop in Liverton Mines in Downe Street?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image and commentary courtesy of Ray Brown and many thanks to Jen Trembath and Richard Barnes for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After making the comment about Tom George\u2019s height on the Post Liverton Mines chapel, Ray Brown asked his daughter Iris Knight if the Archive could post this image. Tom was employed on Skinningrove Iron works, and by the look of it he was in the platelayers gang. He sports a hammer that was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944","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=62944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63827,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944\/revisions\/63827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}