{"id":4196,"date":"2017-05-17T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:38:33","slug":"flitting-the-old-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/flitting-the-old-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Flitting the Old Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time before vans could be hired, how did you move household goods if you were moving house to\u00a0another in the same locality? Well, you were able to borrow a cart to help you to complete the task, as I have depicted from memory in these paintings.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have not heard the use of the verb &#8220;to flit&#8221; in this context, it&#8217;s a Northern English expression meaning: &#8220;to move house or leave one&#8217;s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations&#8221;. \u00a0Not all removals were &#8220;flits&#8221; to escape creditors or obligations&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4193\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting5.jpg\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Flitting5\" width=\"574\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting5.jpg 574w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting5-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4194\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting6.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Flitting6\" width=\"582\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting6.png 582w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting6-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4189\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting1.jpg\" alt=\"william Lonsdale Artist oil painting flitting1\" width=\"559\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting1.jpg 559w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting1-500x380.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4190\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting2.jpg\" alt=\"william Lonsdale Artist oil painting flitting2\" width=\"432\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting2.jpg 432w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/william-Lonsdale-Artist-oil-painting-flitting2-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4195\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting7.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Flitting7\" width=\"649\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting7.png 649w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting7-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4192\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting4.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Flitting4\" width=\"1016\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting4.png 1016w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting4-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting4-768x393.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4191\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/William-Lonsdale-Artist-Oil-Painting-Flitting3.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Flitting3\" width=\"1012\" height=\"755\" 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Well, you were able to borrow a cart to help you to complete the task, as I have depicted from memory in these paintings. For those of you who have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[123,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}