{"id":72518,"date":"2012-12-21T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72518"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:23:19","slug":"the-fountain-loftus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72518","title":{"rendered":"The Fountain, Loftus"},"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\/img125-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72519\" width=\"780\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img125-1-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img125-1-1-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img125-1-1-490x300.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img125-1-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img125-1-1-400x245.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>A very mysterious postcard entitled The Fountain Loftus. It predates the building of the War Memorial above it. It certainly appears dilapidated compared to the images&nbsp;of the unveiling in 1922. From the girls dresses a Victorian or Edwardian date is indicated. It seems when the Memorial was built the fountain underwent a complete makeover. Mary Bielby tells us: \u201dIt is hard to tell if the War Memorial is on this picture. Notice says \u201dwater not safe for drinking\u201d, but used by our families in 1950s in summer when taps dried up \u2013 before Scaling Dam was ready \u2013 water looked very clean, tasted okay and we survived! Dad and several other users lived into their 90s! The children appear to be from a time when little boys were dressed in the same clothes as girls until the age of seven, later age five. Postcard published by Skilbeck Stationers in Zetland Road, Loftus (where Zetland Road Co-op now stands)\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Does anyone have information of it\u2019s original construction and when.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mary Bielby, to whom also thanks for&nbsp;the additional comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very mysterious postcard entitled The Fountain Loftus. It predates the building of the War Memorial above it. It certainly appears dilapidated compared to the images&nbsp;of the unveiling in 1922. From the girls dresses a Victorian or Edwardian date is indicated. It seems when the Memorial was built the fountain underwent a complete makeover. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72518","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\/72518","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=72518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72522,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72518\/revisions\/72522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}