{"id":309,"date":"2014-12-16T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-12-23T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:16:47","slug":"the-rising-sun-high-wych-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"The (Rising) Sun High Wych 1834"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1834-1230-herts-mercury-rising-sun-for-sale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-307\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1834-1230-herts-mercury-rising-sun-for-sale-143x300.jpg\" alt=\"1834 1230  herts mercury rising sun for sale\" width=\"143\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hello,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recently I came across an advert from the Herts Mercury, published\u00a0 in their edition of 30th December 1834.\u00a0 See above. It tells us that the &#8220;well known public house called the Sun together a grocer&#8217;s shop&#8221; plus a homestead, 7 acres of land and six capital cottages will be auctioned following the bankruptcy of Joseph\u00a0 Rivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A number of questions can now be asked:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1. who was Joseph Rivers?\u00a0 Was he perhaps related to the Rivers family from the nursery of the same name?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2. Who bought the Sun &#8211; Rising\u00a0 Sun and who became landlords?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It may very well be that I will have to rewrite my Rising Sun article as a result of this find.\u00a0 I will definitely have to do some extra research. Meanwhile, does anybody have any ideas?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let me know.\u00a0 You can do so through the comment function (which now once again works) or through e-mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Regards,\u00a0 Theo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Recently I came across an advert from the Herts Mercury, published\u00a0 in their edition of 30th December 1834.\u00a0 See above. It tells us that the &#8220;well known public house called the Sun together a grocer&#8217;s shop&#8221; plus a homestead, 7 acres of land and six capital cottages will be auctioned following the bankruptcy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}