{"id":64062,"date":"2010-04-07T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64062"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:13:10","slug":"comical-coons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64062","title":{"rendered":"Comical Coons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64061\" width=\"731\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1.jpg 1908w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1-506x300.jpg 506w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1-1536x911.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1-150x89.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_101-1-400x237.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not politically correct in the present day, but that is what the caption on the photograph said; can anyone enlighten us to when this was and what was the reason for the fancy dress? A possible answer may be that it is one of the Fisherman&#8217;s Association carnival days. Wendy Found tells us: \u201dThis is at the top of Beck Row just before you went under the railway bridge. Don\u2019t know about the fancy dress.\u201d<\/strong> <strong>The Archive has been assisted by Keith Bowers, discovering the &#8216;Comical Coon Company&#8217; often undertook charity events to raise mone for unfortunate people. This detail came from a Whitby Gazette item dated  8th July 1904.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others, many thanks to Wendy Found and Keith Bowers for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not politically correct in the present day, but that is what the caption on the photograph said; can anyone enlighten us to when this was and what was the reason for the fancy dress? A possible answer may be that it is one of the Fisherman&#8217;s Association carnival days. Wendy Found tells us: \u201dThis [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skinningrove-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062","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=64062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71534,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64062\/revisions\/71534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}