{"id":5818,"date":"2023-07-31T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:35:52","slug":"river-severn-at-lydney-october-31st-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/river-severn-at-lydney-october-31st-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"River Severn at Lydney October 31st 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L-R: Heather Johnson, Sylvia Kiely, Gwen Roberts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy of:  Bryan Nelmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Severn Rail Bridge ran across the river behind the girls. Some piers of the rail bridge can just be made out in the background. The bridge had been damaged in an accident just days earlier. It was never repaired. <br>The full  bridge is shown in the image below in a drawing from 1935. The 4th and 5th span from the left and one pier were removed in the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/s-b-1935-gd.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing of The Severn Rail Bridge in 1935, by Gwendoline Dow.\" class=\"wp-image-5863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/s-b-1935-gd.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/s-b-1935-gd-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/s-b-1935-gd-768x552.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Severn Rail Bridge in 1935, by Gwendoline Dow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drawing above by Gwendoline Dow, was drawn in 1935 while she was a student at Lydney Art School.<br>The image suffers from reflections as it was photographed through glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three girls on the banks of the River Severn At Lydney. in October 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,28],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lydney","tag-people","tag-severn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}