{"id":1846,"date":"2019-02-05T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2019-07-02T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:54:41","slug":"meeting-1st-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Meeting &#8211; 1st March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please note, our next meeting at St Saviour\u2019s Church Hall is on <strong>FRIDAY<\/strong> 1<sup>st<\/sup> March 2019 at\n8.00pm when we will have a presentation by Colin\nKnipe entitled \u201cThe History of Teddy Grays of Dudley\u201d. Colin will tell\nus about the chequered history of the business of the Gray family and show the\ncharming Martin Parr film \u201cTeddy Gray\u2019s Sweet Factory\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; If you have visited Bewdley, you\nwill need no introduction to Teddy Gray. If you look to your left as you come\nover the bridge into Load Street you will see his famous sweet shop with its\nbright red and white canopy. Sadly, Teddy Gray himself died in 2017 at the age\nof 81 after 60 years in the family owned business which was founded in 1826.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; The business first became famous for\nproducing Gray\u2019s herbal tablets but over the years they have expanded to\nproduce a vast selection of different sweets. They also made lettered rock for\nDudley Zoo and still supply the Zoo today. If you have a sweet tooth, I would almost\ndefy you to visit the shop and walk out empty handed. I think a sweet tooth is\nimportant as they currently use six tonnes of sugar a week in their\nmanufacturing processes. In keeping with the theme, there will be some Teddy\nGray sweets to sample on the night along with the usual refreshments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Visitors are most welcome at all our\nevents \u2013 see hhfs.org.uk for details and contacts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note, our next meeting at St Saviour\u2019s Church Hall is on FRIDAY 1st March 2019 at 8.00pm when we will have a presentation by Colin Knipe entitled \u201cThe History of Teddy Grays of Dudley\u201d. Colin will tell us about the chequered history of the business of the Gray family and show the charming Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}