{"id":1376,"date":"2013-03-22T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2013-05-27T05:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T04:24:05","slug":"news-letter-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The large number of members and visitors at our March meeting suggested that either our speaker or his topic were likely to be of interest: Richard Perrin and the history of Bewdley exceeded all expectations on both counts.\u00a0 As a nod to the Society\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, Richard started with some of the 60s bands that played in the town but he quickly went back to the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century, the Mortimers and Tickenhill Palace, once the home of the Princesses Elizabeth and Mary Tudor.\u00a0 The Severn was the key to Bewdley\u2019s prosperity and our speaker showed pictures of the famous trows, the various bridges and pre-Second War views of rowing, swimming and pleasure craft.\u00a0 The town has a plethora of fascinating buildings, although many gems have been lost: Richard\u2019s photographic coverage showed us what we had missed.\u00a0 We concluded with some of the town\u2019s famous people, focusing on the Baldwins and General de Gaulle.\u00a0 All this whetted our appetite for Richard\u2019s conducted walk around Bewdley in July.\u00a0 We should be in for a fascinating tour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The large number of members and visitors at our March meeting suggested that either our speaker or his topic were likely to be of interest: Richard Perrin and the history of Bewdley exceeded all expectations on both counts.\u00a0 As a nod to the Society\u2019s 50th birthday, Richard started with some of the 60s bands that [&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-1376","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\/1376","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=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}