{"id":12999,"date":"2022-06-01T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:40:12","slug":"picture-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/?p=12999","title":{"rendered":"Mystery house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/895EB95F-CF35-4C0D-B5D4-CA79A95B0093-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13300 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/895EB95F-CF35-4C0D-B5D4-CA79A95B0093-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/895EB95F-CF35-4C0D-B5D4-CA79A95B0093-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/895EB95F-CF35-4C0D-B5D4-CA79A95B0093-1-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/895EB95F-CF35-4C0D-B5D4-CA79A95B0093-1-768x544.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>This mystery photo was sent to our website by Sue Swanborough and was featured as <i>picture of the month<\/i> in August. \u00a0She acquired it recently but so far has had no success in locating where it was taken.<br \/>\n<\/strong>The reverse of the photograph is inscribed\u00a0<strong><em> \u2018St Barbara, Brentor, Devon, August 1932\u2019,<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>but no house called St Barbara is listed in local censuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alvin Diaz has been researching the photograph and thinks that he has located it. \u00a0He searched local directories which led to two names &#8211; Mary Cooke Allen and Frances Ann Powell &#8211; both listed as resident at St Barbara. \u00a0 Mary Cooke Allen is also listed in the 1921 census as residing in St Barbara and the house appears to be in the Rowden House locality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Is it still there, in a different name &#8211; or has it been rebuilt? \u00a0Do <i>you <\/i>know?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><br \/>\nIf you recognise the house please contact the editor at <a href=\"mailto:editor@brentorpc.org.uk\">editor@brentorpc.org.uk<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/?page_id=12585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>You can see all the past pictures of the month by clicking here.<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mystery photo was sent to our website by Sue Swanborough and was featured as picture of the month in August. \u00a0She acquired it recently but so far has had no success in locating where it was taken. The reverse of the photograph is inscribed\u00a0 \u2018St Barbara, Brentor, Devon, August 1932\u2019,\u00a0 but no house called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brentor-history","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13824,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions\/13824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}