{"id":1160,"date":"2011-05-18T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:55:31","slug":"oil-tankers-laid-up-on-the-river-fal-1950s-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/oil-tankers-laid-up-on-the-river-fal-1950s-60s","title":{"rendered":"Oil Tankers Laid Up On The River Fal (1950&#8217;s\/60&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1163\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1163\" class=\"wp-image-1163 size-large\" title=\"Old Photo of Oil Tankers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal-640x437.jpg\" alt=\"Old Photo of Oil Tankers\" width=\"640\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal-640x437.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal-500x342.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/river-fal.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Photo of Oil Tankers (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1161\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-image-1161 size-large\" title=\"Old Photo of Oil Tankers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal-640x415.jpg\" alt=\"Old Photo of Oil Tankers\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal-640x415.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal-500x325.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/oil-tanker-river-fal.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Photo of Oil Tankers (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My grandpa (<strong><a title=\"Charlie Hibbitt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/familytree\/fam1746.html\">Charlie Hibbitt<\/a><\/strong>) probably took these photos of oil tankers laid up on the River Fal in Cornwall some time during the 1950&#8217;s or 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(From my grandpa&#8217;s collection of old slides &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Digitizing Grandpa\u2019s Old Slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/digitizing-grandpas-old-slides\">see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandpa (Charlie Hibbitt) probably took these photos of oil tankers laid up on the River Fal in Cornwall some time during the 1950&#8217;s or 1960&#8217;s. (From my grandpa&#8217;s collection of old slides &#8211; see this post for more information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grandpas-old-slides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}