{"id":10080,"date":"2014-03-30T23:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=10080"},"modified":"2014-03-31T00:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T07:59:40","slug":"old-high-street-hook-and-ladder-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/old-high-street-hook-and-ladder-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Old High Street Hook and Ladder Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Giving Exhibition at O&#8217;Neill Block, Holyoke, 1892<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10082\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2014\/03\/30\/old-high-street-hook-and-ladder-company\/30-mar-1930-firefighters\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10082\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10082\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10082\" alt=\"Rescue Hookup Ladder No. 1\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/30-mar-1930-firefighters-256x300.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/30-mar-1930-firefighters-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/30-mar-1930-firefighters.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue Hookup Ladder No. 1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the fire department parade in 1892, the fire laddies gave an exhibition of ladder and rescue work at the O&#8217;Neill block, corner of High and Essex Streets, later the George F. O&#8217;Connor block.<\/p>\n<p>At the left with dummy is <strong>Joseph Embury<\/strong>; at top of ladder down,<strong> John Bligh, William Ross, Thomas E. Bligh, Fred Burt, Frank Ridot, John Kelliher and William D. Bunnell<\/strong>. Standing on the ground, left to right (sorry, it isn&#8217;t a sharp photo), <strong>Daniel Moynihan, Amos Shepardson, William Judd, Nathan Percy, Patrick Conway, Thomas Flynn, Robert McDonnell, and James Prendergast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This bunch was known as the &#8220;<strong>Rescue Hookup Ladder No. 1<\/strong>&#8221; and was located at the old High Street headquarters where the People&#8217;s Saving Bank now stands.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving Exhibition at O&#8217;Neill Block, Holyoke, 1892 After the fire department parade in 1892, the fire laddies gave an exhibition of ladder and rescue work at the O&#8217;Neill block, corner of High and Essex Streets, later the George F. O&#8217;Connor block. At the left with dummy is Joseph Embury; at top of ladder down, John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,327],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10099,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}