{"id":68151,"date":"2010-09-22T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68151"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T19:26:57","slug":"redcar-high-street-decorated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68151","title":{"rendered":"Redcar High Street Decorated"},"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\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68150\" width=\"696\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1.jpg 1576w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1-511x300.jpg 511w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1-1536x902.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1-150x88.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1206796471-a-1-400x235.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A busy day in Redcar 1908, as Bill Danby tells us: \u201dThis is almost certainly 1908 on the occasion of General French\u2019s visit to the Annual Camp of the Territorial Force. The Territorial Force was started in this year to replace the old Volunteers and Redcar was a regular venue for the camps along with other usually seaside places. The hard training camps were seen as a holiday by lads who spent the rest of the year down pits and in factories. The local 4th Yorkshire Battalion, Territorial Force were else where in this year but did have their camp at Redcar in 1913. General French was in command of the British Army at the start of the First World War until May 1915 when the German gains at Ypres, after using gas for the first time, caused him to be replaced by Gen Douglas Haig.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image and detail courtesy of Bill<\/strong> <strong>Danby&#8217;s Yorkshire Regimental Histories.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A busy day in Redcar 1908, as Bill Danby tells us: \u201dThis is almost certainly 1908 on the occasion of General French\u2019s visit to the Annual Camp of the Territorial Force. The Territorial Force was started in this year to replace the old Volunteers and Redcar was a regular venue for the camps [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redcar-and-marske","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68151","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=68151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68152,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68151\/revisions\/68152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}