{"id":74662,"date":"2013-06-28T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=74662"},"modified":"2023-04-28T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:25:12","slug":"loftus-wool-fair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=74662","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Wool Fair"},"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\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74563\" width=\"775\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2.jpg 1793w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2-415x300.jpg 415w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2-1536x1109.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2-150x108.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Loftus-Wool-Fair-a-2-400x289.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This image from a newspaper cutting is clearly dated 1910. It is obviously a different&nbsp;year from the images elsewhere on the site, based upon style of dress and&nbsp;arrangements of the stalls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From a slightly later date we have a personal reminiscence of the Wool Fair from Mrs L .E. &nbsp;Johnson of Loftus, she says: \u201dThe fair was a diversion in the 1920\u2019s which we all enjoyed. The Wool Fair was an annual event in June. The cattle and poultry, etc., were sold in the recreation field in Micklow Lane. We used to rush home from school at dinner time to see all the animals because it was all over when school finished at 4 o\u2019clock.&nbsp;On one side of the Market Place (no busses or cars then) there were produce stalls including a fish and chip van. It was fascinating to see the owner stoking up the firfe under the pans.&nbsp;In the corner where the telephone now stands there were two swinging boats and a roundabout. On the opposite side of the market, John Dawson Robinson sold farm machinery (on the corner last occupied by the Post Office), George Dale sold crockery and Charley Turner, a popular character, had his stall outside the Golden Lion Hotel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cutting from a collection gifted to the Archive, most of the cuttings coming from the Northern Echo; although this image could be from a Loftus postcard producer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This image from a newspaper cutting is clearly dated 1910. It is obviously a different&nbsp;year from the images elsewhere on the site, based upon style of dress and&nbsp;arrangements of the stalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a slightly later date we have a personal reminiscence of the Wool Fair from Mrs L .E. &nbsp;Johnson of Loftus, [&#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-74662","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\/74662","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=74662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74666,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74662\/revisions\/74666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}