{"id":65647,"date":"2010-06-11T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65647"},"modified":"2024-02-10T17:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:07:50","slug":"rushpool-hall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65647","title":{"rendered":"Rushpool Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65646\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2342342342342343;width:807px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001.jpg 483w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001-371x300.jpg 371w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001-150x121.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RushpoolHall-001-400x324.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>This image features on the website \u201dSkelton in Cleveland in History\u201d;\u00a0it was created from a colour photograph taken by Bill Danby as\u00a0he did not have an old one at the time to illustrate the facts. If you look to the right you can see the modern PVC conservatory.\u00a0David Richardson adds: &#8220;Rushpool Hall was made of ironstone and was built in 1863 to 1865, at a cost of \u00a3100,000 by the late John Bell, who with his brother Sir Lothian Bell (the Bell Brothers) was one of the founders of the Cleveland Iron Industry and the first to work ironstone in Skelton.&#8221; Rushpool Hall burnt down (although all the walls remained intact) in 1904. There is an image on the site of the burnt out shell, prior to restoration in 1905.<\/strong> <strong>George Sheeran comments: &#8220;I find it difficult to believe that this house cost \u00a3100,000 to build in the 1860s \u2013 what is the source of this figure? According to Bank of England calculations that would be about \u00a311,500,000 today. I could just about believe that it cost something like that to build and decorate and fit out and furnish, but even in the 1860s this would take some doing. The Grand Hotel in Scarborough (built at around the same time) with over 300 rooms and an underground railway to bring in supplies cost something like \u00a3150,000 to build according to contemporary newspaper accounts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image and details of its creation courtesy of Bill Danby; thanks to David Richardson and George Sheeran for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>This image features on the website \u201dSkelton in Cleveland in History\u201d; it was created from a colour photograph taken by Bill Danby as he did not have an old one at the time to illustrate the facts. If you look to the right you can see the modern PVC conservatory. David Richardson adds: &#8220;Rushpool [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saltburn","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65647","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=65647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78170,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65647\/revisions\/78170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}