{"id":6557,"date":"2019-02-13T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:06:38","slug":"goldenhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/02\/13\/goldenhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldenhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in <em>The Sentinel<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/news\/history\/goldenhill-police-coal-pop-telephone-2530004\">&#8216;The coal man and the bread man have gone for good&#8217; &#8211; how things have changed in Stoke-on-Trent since the 1960s<\/a>.  Memories of Goldenhill, an isolated hilltop part of Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, such things lasted a long time in parts of Stoke-on-Trent.  In the early 2000s when I lived in Middleport, you could still see coal-deliveries being made to pensioners, with  coal-sacks trucked by hand up back-alleys and into coal-sheds.  The distinctive &#8216;annnyyy-oll-irroon!&#8217; call of the rag-and-bone man could still be heard, maybe once every six weeks, although his horse had long gone.  And the milk-float man still made milk-bottle deliveries, and you could get a pre-ordered loaf of bread delivered with the milk. Of course, it&#8217;s all gone now &mdash; flattened into brick-dust by Commissar Nevin and henchmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in The Sentinel, &#8216;The coal man and the bread man have gone for good&#8217; &#8211; how things have changed in Stoke-on-Trent since the 1960s. Memories of Goldenhill, an isolated hilltop part of Stoke-on-Trent. Mind you, such things lasted a long time in parts of Stoke-on-Trent. In the early 2000s when I lived in Middleport, [&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-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","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=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}