{"id":71969,"date":"2012-11-19T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71969"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:02:27","slug":"recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71969","title":{"rendered":"Recent History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71968\" width=\"771\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115-451x300.jpg 451w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-johnson-11-10-1115-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>This photograph is of recent history; in North Road on the right, the long building with the tiled roof was demolished and houses were built on the site. Believed to have been a blacksmiths shop, then a warehouse, finally it was owned by Espiners. John Aitken advises: &#8220;My Grandmother, Cony Wilkin (nee Gott), used to take me to Espiner\u2019s \u201cPop\u201d factory where soft drinks were made. It was run by a lady, looking quite French to a 6 year old boy who wore a scarf and seemed to get along very well with my Grandmother. I got a bottle of pop off the bottling line sometimes if I was lucky. It was a dark and noisy place, but so many bottles of pop. Something I was not typically allowed to have; that would have been 1970\/71.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy Eric Johnson, thanks to John Aitken for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>This photograph is of recent history; in North Road on the right, the long building with the tiled roof was demolished and houses were built on the site. Believed to have been a blacksmiths shop, then a warehouse, finally it was owned by Espiners. John Aitken advises: &#8220;My Grandmother, Cony Wilkin (nee Gott), used [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-north","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71971,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969\/revisions\/71971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}