{"id":1345,"date":"2013-01-02T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:28:23","slug":"news-letter-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1963 was an auspicious year.\u00a0 The major world event was the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas but the year started with the Big Freeze in the UK.\u00a0 Other notable events were the Great Train Robbery, the Profumo affair, Harold Wilson becoming Labour leader, Alec Douglas Home succeeding Harold McMillan and the publication of the Beeching Report.\u00a0 The Beatles dominated the music scene, the BBC transmitted the first episode of Dr Who and the Compact Cassette was introduced.\u00a0 In Hagley 1800 buses served the village each week (including the 253, Sweetpool Lane to Stourbridge) and you could have seen a Midland Red bus every three minutes on summer Sundays.\u00a0 The village was experiencing massive housing growth, the library had been opened the previous year, the A491 was linked to the new M5 and Issue 1 of the Village News appeared.\u00a0 Into this maelstrom was launched the Hagley Historical &amp; Field Society on 31<sup>st<\/sup> July and its first event followed on 28<sup>th<\/sup> September with a visit to Buildwas Abbey.\u00a0 The first meeting was on 15<sup>th<\/sup> October, when Len Nock and Martin Lister showed photographs of the rapidly-disappearing old village.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Alan Atkinson attempted to cover all this (and more) in his presentation at the January meeting, thus setting the scene for the Society\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1963 was an auspicious year.\u00a0 The major world event was the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas but the year started with the Big Freeze in the UK.\u00a0 Other notable events were the Great Train Robbery, the Profumo affair, Harold Wilson becoming Labour leader, Alec Douglas Home succeeding Harold McMillan and the publication of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}