{"id":7376,"date":"2012-09-25T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2012-09-25T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:44:41","slug":"down-memory-lane-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7376","title":{"rendered":"Down Memory Lane Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/\/12092105.jpg\" alt=\"Down Memory Lane\" \/><br \/>\nThere was an exhibition of memories from the 1940s and 50s at the Abingdon Resource and Wellbeing Centre on Saturday. It included pictures, videos, and art work.\u00a0A number of the stars of the exhibition were there to answer questions &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/\/12092102.jpg\" alt=\"Down Memory Lane\" \/><br \/>\nStella Coulling had signed up to become a bus conductor at the start of the war, and then went on a two week training course to become a bus driver, which she passed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/\/12092106.jpg\" alt=\"Down Memory Lane\" \/><br \/>\nShe said it was not easy driving a large bus in blackout conditions &#8211; particularly in the rain when hundreds of workers were leaving the Morris Motors plant on bikes with no lights.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/\/12092103.jpg\" alt=\"Down Memory Lane\" \/><br \/>\nTo read more about this excellent exhibition visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sharonwoodwardmischiefpictures.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/07\/down-memory-lane-remember-when.html\">Sharon Woodward&#8217;s Blog<\/a> . There are links to a number of \u00a0films shown at the exhibition: the first one is about Stella. Another shows John Mason School students who had a go at making cakes with war time ingredients. The Brownies were helping at the exhibition, serving teas, and are also featured on the films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an exhibition of memories from the 1940s and 50s at the Abingdon Resource and Wellbeing Centre on Saturday. It included pictures, videos, and art work.\u00a0A number of the stars of the exhibition were there to answer questions &#8230; Stella Coulling had signed up to become a bus conductor at the start of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}