{"id":6380,"date":"2024-02-26T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:40:38","slug":"lydney-from-st-marys-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/lydney-from-st-marys-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydney from St Mary&#8217;s Tower."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy of Clive Berry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This view of Lydney pre-dates the Lydney War Memorial and the Almshouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lydney War Memorial Trust was founded by Lord Bledisloe in 1927. He built a group of four almshouses on Church Road just north of the church, to be occupied predominantly by dependants of Lydney men killed in the First World War. The Memorial was erected at the same time and forms a focal point in front of the buildings.<\/p>\n<cite>Source: https:\/\/www.warmemorials.org\/search-grants\/?gID=1267<br> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is a similar view from a magic lantern slide produced by A J Lumbert and post date the War Memorial and Alms Houses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a1f055c2576d&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a1f055c2576d\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1015\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/almshouses_lydney-AJL.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Lydney Alms Houses and War Memorial\" class=\"wp-image-6386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/almshouses_lydney-AJL.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/almshouses_lydney-AJL-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/almshouses_lydney-AJL-768x821.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From a slide produced by A J Lumbert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old view of Lydney as seen from the tower of St Mary&#8217;s church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lydney","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}