{"id":65849,"date":"2010-06-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65849"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:28:20","slug":"the-italian-gardens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65849","title":{"rendered":"The Italian Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65848\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1-409x300.jpg 409w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1-150x110.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/scn_214-1-400x294.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you look carefully into the distance the magnificent Half-penny Bridge can be seen, sadly no longer there any more, badly maintained in more modern times it was deemed expedient to demolish it rather than repair it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This magnificent display was still replenished every year, until recently \u2013 although the floral masterpiece has changed design over the years.&nbsp; The gardeners no longer raise the plants themselves on site however \u2013 they and their greenhouses and potting sheds are long gone.&nbsp; The gardening staff are provided by Redcar and Cleveland Parks and Gardens and are just as skilled at providing the wonderful displays.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I called this \u2019The Italian Gardens\u2019; but&nbsp;I had a feeling that this part of the gardens had another name. Callum Duff has come to our aid: \u201dThis postcard does definitely show The Italian Gardens! the rest of the valley has been called a number of different names including The Pleasure Grounds, Saltburn Glen and The Valley Gardens.\u201d Rob Carter adds: &#8220;I\u2019ve bought a small album of Saltburn-by-the-sea photographs (Victorian) and there\u2019s a photograph entitled \u2018in the gardens\u2019 showing the bandstand and also another entitled \u2018the Italian Flower Gardens\u2019. Other photographs include the gardens from the (Halfpenny) Bridge, Oak Walk in the gardens, the old Convalescent Home, the Cliff Tramway, On the Sands (with Bathing Machines)!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Callum Duff and Rob Carter for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you look carefully into the distance the magnificent Half-penny Bridge can be seen, sadly no longer there any more, badly maintained in more modern times it was deemed expedient to demolish it rather than repair it.<\/p>\n<p>This magnificent display was still replenished every year, until recently \u2013 although the floral masterpiece has changed [&#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-65849","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\/65849","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=65849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65852,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions\/65852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}