{"id":7620,"date":"2020-02-17T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T09:35:55","slug":"hark-the-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/02\/17\/hark-the-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hark the robbers!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wolstanton children&#8217;s game-song, collected circa the early 1890s by Miss Alice Annie Keary, folklore-collector of Stoke-on-Trent, and published in <em>The Traditional Games of England<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wolstanton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wolstanton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7621\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibly related to pick-pockets coming through a crowd, then a common occurrence. Incidentally, she grew up at &#8220;The Hollies&#8221;, Trent Vale and she later gives her location as very nearby Oakhill (aka Oak Hill, on the edge of Trent Vale).  This is not to be confused with the Oakhill just beyond the south-east edge of Stoke, which online map services will misleadingly take you to if you search for &#8220;Oakhill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A parish newsletter, placed online, mentions than an old lady remembered that &#8220;The Hollies&#8221; was demolished but was located quite near to where the Tesco store is today&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Revd Pat Dunn has been a resident in Trent Vale since 1948 and shared her memories of growing up in a village &#8230; As we watch building on a plot of land near to Tesco, Pat told me that the large house recently demolished, was called \u2018The Hollies\u2019.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wolstanton children&#8217;s game-song, collected circa the early 1890s by Miss Alice Annie Keary, folklore-collector of Stoke-on-Trent, and published in The Traditional Games of England. Possibly related to pick-pockets coming through a crowd, then a common occurrence. Incidentally, she grew up at &#8220;The Hollies&#8221;, Trent Vale and she later gives her location as very nearby [&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-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","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=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}