{"id":8707,"date":"2021-02-25T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2021-02-25T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:42:19","slug":"the-botanic-institute-burslem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/02\/25\/the-botanic-institute-burslem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Botanic Institute, Burslem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My novel <em>The Spyders of Burslem<\/em> features the last of the &#8216;cunning&#8217; men, Jimmy Tunnicliffe, at the end of the 1860s. I&#8217;m pleased to discover that there was a real if rather more upmarket equivalent to Jimmy Tunnicliffe in Burslem and, by the looks of it, at more or less about the right time. Evidently there was a &#8216;Botanic Institute&#8217; herbalist on The Sytch (which also appears in the novel), by the name of Ree Dar or Reedar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/r-e-ree-dar-botanist-burslem-stoke-on-trent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/r-e-ree-dar-botanist-burslem-stoke-on-trent.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"995\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If he could get out to country patients (see the bottom of the flyer) evidently he kept a horse and gig. Which would make sense, since he would also need to have a means of getting out of Stoke to gather herbs in their season. Though such people also had &#8216;gatherers&#8217; I seem to recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My novel The Spyders of Burslem features the last of the &#8216;cunning&#8217; men, Jimmy Tunnicliffe, at the end of the 1860s. I&#8217;m pleased to discover that there was a real if rather more upmarket equivalent to Jimmy Tunnicliffe in Burslem and, by the looks of it, at more or less about the right time. Evidently [&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-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","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=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}