{"id":64085,"date":"2010-04-08T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64085"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:34:15","slug":"a-special-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64085","title":{"rendered":"A Special Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2252\" height=\"1380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64084\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6329479768786128;width:735px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1.jpg 2252w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-490x300.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-1536x941.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-2048x1255.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scn_339-1-400x245.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2252px) 100vw, 2252px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>A gathering of special policemen, believed to have been in the upstairs of Loftus Police Station. Anyone know what the occasion was?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back row: G. Blaylock (Loftus), F. Reynolds (Skinningrove), J. Hardy (Loftus), S. Thornton (Hinderwell).<br>Middle row: J. Shaw (Brotton), Dennis Welford (Hinderwell), George Lindsley (Loftus), L. Sanderson (Loftus).<br>Front row, Alf Burnside (Loftus), Sergeant E. Smith (Staithes), Inspector S. Pennock (Loftus), Sergeant W. Blaylock (Loftus).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Andrew Lindsley remembers: &#8220;George Lindsley was my Grandfather. He lived at 23 West Road, Loftus. I remember on special occasions I was allowed to wear his uniform when I was a child.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thanks to Andrew Lindsley for the update.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>A gathering of special policemen, believed to have been in the upstairs of Loftus Police Station. Anyone know what the occasion was?<\/p>\n<p>Back row: G. Blaylock (Loftus), F. Reynolds (Skinningrove), J. Hardy (Loftus), S. Thornton (Hinderwell).Middle row: J. Shaw (Brotton), Dennis Welford (Hinderwell), George Lindsley (Loftus), L. Sanderson (Loftus).Front row, Alf Burnside (Loftus), Sergeant [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085","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=64085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79202,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085\/revisions\/79202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}