{"id":65,"date":"2012-05-28T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:42:23","slug":"george-street-1920-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/george-street-1920-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"George Street 1920 &#8211; 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/immemgstreet.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/images\/gsstrg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>George went to work down &#8220;the Pit&#8221; at Kiveton Park starting on his 14th birthday. When World War 2 broke out coal mining became a reserved occupation and George worked in the mine throughout the war. This coalmine, like many others, no longer exists being\u00c2\u00a0closed in 1994 \u00c2\u00a0resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coal mining\u00c2\u00a0was traditionally the principal industry of Kiveton. Even as early as 1598 the area was extracting 2,000 tons a year. By the middle of the 19th century, the coal extracted from the mine, was transported by canal and\u00c2\u00a0 rail. In 1866, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kiveton Park Colliery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiveton_Park_Colliery\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Kiveton Park Colliery<\/a> was sunk, making it one of the earliest deep mines in the world. As a result of the new colliery, the population of Kiveton leapt from 300 to 1,400 over a period of just ten years. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/immemgstreet.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more..<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George went to work down &#8220;the Pit&#8221; at Kiveton Park starting on his 14th birthday. When World War 2 broke out coal mining became a reserved occupation and George worked in the mine throughout the war. This coalmine, like many others, no longer exists being\u00c2\u00a0closed in 1994 \u00c2\u00a0resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs. Coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,17,16,18],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coal-mining","tag-kiveton-park","tag-kiveton-park-colliery","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2th7u-13","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}