{"id":18234,"date":"2025-09-18T05:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18234"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:26:39","slug":"pioneering-photographers-in-the-moorlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/09\/18\/pioneering-photographers-in-the-moorlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering photographers in the Moorlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VTh9h5\">David Cliffe of Leek<\/a> is doing good work uncovering the photographic history of the town of Leek and the wider Staffordshire Moorlands, and publishing the results as accessible books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/localphot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/localphot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"721\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/localphot.jpg 328w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/localphot-136x300.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also integrating the knowledge into local mystery novels in his Old Leek Mystery series&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tragedy strikes when a travelling theatre visits the Staffordshire market town of Leek in Edwardian times. The town also becomes embroiled in suspicion of foreign agents. Local photographer Nathaniel Blake and his teenage daughter Cora turn amateur detective and find themselves in peril.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to learn that David Cliffe of Leek is doing good work uncovering the photographic history of the town of Leek and the wider Staffordshire Moorlands, and publishing the results as accessible books. He&#8217;s also integrating the knowledge into local mystery novels in his Old Leek Mystery series&#8230; Tragedy strikes when a travelling theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18238,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions\/18238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}