{"id":64555,"date":"2010-04-18T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64555"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:39:01","slug":"loftus-sword-dancers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64555","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Sword Dancers"},"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\/11\/scn_0034-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64554\" width=\"717\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scn_0034-1.jpg 927w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scn_0034-1-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scn_0034-1-436x300.jpg 436w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scn_0034-1-150x103.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scn_0034-1-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is a good print of the Loftus Sword Dancers.&nbsp; Initially the Archive was unsure of the location or occasion for this photograph, we were told by Ron Gittins that this could possibly be Darlington.<\/strong> <strong>Peter Whiteley has assisted with: &#8220;I was a member of Loftus Sword Dancers along with Ron Gittins, Rod Collinson, Ron Shaw, Keith Pierson and Stuart Carter we were photographed in the Northern Echo; March 9th 1959 winning a sword dancing shield at Darlington Music Festival.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back Row:&nbsp;Harry Cuthbert,&nbsp;John Hill&nbsp;, Brian Snowdon , William Morrish, Arthur Marshall. Front Row: Derek Cuthbert , ?? , Ron Gittins, Jim Fishlock.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Joan Jemson, <\/strong>t<strong>hanks to Eric Cowe,&nbsp;Eric Johnson, Ron Gittins (via Jean Gittins) and David Snowdon help with missing names. Many thanks to Peter Whiteley for settling the time and place.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a good print of the Loftus Sword Dancers.&nbsp; Initially the Archive was unsure of the location or occasion for this photograph, we were told by Ron Gittins that this could possibly be Darlington. Peter Whiteley has assisted with: &#8220;I was a member of Loftus Sword Dancers along with Ron Gittins, Rod Collinson, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-dancing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64555","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=64555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71350,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64555\/revisions\/71350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}