{"id":3269,"date":"2025-01-01T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:56:27","slug":"1863-william-firth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"1863 &#8211; William Firth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Firth worked at the Locke &amp; Co. Allerton Haigh Moor colliery.<br>He was killed on 11th May 1863 by being crushed at the bottom of the shaft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-1536x762.png 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-MDV-2048x1016.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1-1024x537.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1-1024x537.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1-1536x806.png 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Firth-CMSDI-1.png 1770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Firth worked at the Locke &amp; Co. Allerton Haigh Moor colliery.He was killed on 11th May 1863 by being crushed at the bottom of the shaft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,121,124],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[108,117],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allerton-haigh-moor-colliery","category-colliery-deaths","category-locke-co","author-mick","author-shep76"],"authors":[{"term_id":108,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mick","display_name":"Mick","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/admin_avatar-128x128-1.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":117,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"shep76","display_name":"Neil Shepherdson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ABH-Researchers-256px-150x150.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}