{"id":11670,"date":"2022-09-20T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:05:10","slug":"the-tannery-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11670","title":{"rendered":"The tannery ghost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Jude%27s,_Bristol\">St Judes<\/a> runs along the west bank of the River Frome (<em>aka the Danny in east Bristol. Ed.<\/em>) offering views of the industrial buildings on the far bank.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_11684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11684\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/scadding.jpg\" alt=\"View of J. Scadding &amp; Son's timber yard featuring brick remains of former tannery on the site\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/scadding.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/scadding-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ghost of building past in the timber yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>In front of the more modern timber sheds erected by current site occupants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scadding-son-ltd.co.uk\/\">J. Scadding &amp; Son<\/a>, are some older structures of brick and stone, which appear to be nineteenth century industrial buildings. In the 19th century the banks of the Frome were densely crowded with industrial buildings, particularly for processes that required ready access to an abundant supply of water, such as brewers and tanners.<\/p>\r\n<p>A quick search through the vintage maps on Bristol City Council&#8217;s excellent Know Your Place website reveals that Scadding&#8217;s current site was occupied by the Earlsmead Tannery in the late 19th century, whilst Scadding&#8217;s website reveals the company only moved to the site in the mid-1950s..<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_11688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11688\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/earlsmead_tannery.png\" alt=\"Late 19th century Earlsmead Tannery\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/earlsmead_tannery.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/earlsmead_tannery-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of Scadding&#8217;s timber yard in the late 19th century.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Could those standing walls be Earlsmead Tannery&#8217;s remains?<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington Road in St Judes runs along the west bank of the River Frome (aka the Danny in east Bristol. Ed.) offering views of the industrial buildings on the far bank. In front of the more modern timber sheds erected by current site occupants J. Scadding &amp; Son, are some older structures of brick and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17],"tags":[40,36,14,16,22],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-dialect","tag-english-usage","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11699,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/11699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}