{"id":69431,"date":"2022-01-08T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69431"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:00:55","slug":"races-shop-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69431","title":{"rendered":"Race&#8217;s Shop Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69423\" style=\"width:669px;height:501px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1.jpg 2016w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220103-Mervyn_Races_Shop-a-1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>William<\/strong> <strong>Maxwell Race, in the doorway of his shop in the Market Place; the original &#8216;Race&#8217; of the story about &#8220;a race between a camel and a lion, overlooked by an angel. In reality Cammell &#8211; the name of the next shop in the Market Place) and the Lion (being the Golden Lion which is to the right in this image. The &#8216;angel&#8217; was the Angel Inn on the opposite side of the Market Place; now closed. Dating the image places it well before 1923 (William&#8217;s death) and is probably about 1900. William Maxwell Race was the uncle of Mervyn Sherwood Brown who sent the Archive this series of images.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mervyn Sherwood Brown (via Dean Gibson). <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>William Maxwell Race, in the doorway of his shop in the Market Place; the original &#8216;Race&#8217; of the story about &#8220;a race between a camel and a lion, overlooked by an angel. In reality Cammell &#8211; the name of the next shop in the Market Place) and the Lion (being the Golden Lion which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-market-place","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69431","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=69431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79501,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69431\/revisions\/79501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}