{"id":75414,"date":"2013-10-04T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=75414"},"modified":"2023-08-05T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T12:34:35","slug":"amateur-dramatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=75414","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Dramatics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002-401x300.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img172-002-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>We know it is the Women\u2019s Institute, is it amateur dramatics or maybe a fancy dress, we would love to know the occassion and who&nbsp; you recognise on this picture?&nbsp; Now do not be shy, it is too late now!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And for younger viewers, can you identify the wooden object the lady on the left is holding? Bob Doe wins the identification quiz telling us: \u201dMy parents used to have something like this in the 1940s\/50s.&nbsp; I believe it was used for washing clothes in a wooden or metal tub.&nbsp; The tub was called a poss tub and the wooden object was a posser.\u201d Derick Pearson assists with: \u201dWe had exactly the same type of object in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the wooden beer barrel type tub with hoops on and later the galvanised ribbed metal one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Ann Hamliton and Loftus Women\u2019s Institute, many thanks to Bob Doe for identifying the poss tub and posser; also Derick Pearson for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>We know it is the Women\u2019s Institute, is it amateur dramatics or maybe a fancy dress, we would love to know the occassion and who&nbsp; you recognise on this picture?&nbsp; Now do not be shy, it is too late now!<\/p>\n<p>And for younger viewers, can you identify the wooden object the lady on the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75414","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75417,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75414\/revisions\/75417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}