{"id":1382,"date":"2011-01-02T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1382"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:11:10","slug":"eyewitness-accounts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1382","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/eyewit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1385\" style=\"border: 12px solid #d8e9da; margin: 5px; padding: 5px;\" title=\"eyewit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/eyewit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>There is nothing so fascinating as hearing about the past from those who were there at the time. We are building up a collection of written, oral and video accounts of events and experiences by those who experienced them firsthand.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bill Peen's eyewitness account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1566\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Peen<\/a> was a witness to the tragic results of the Maidstone Road bombs. See the video<\/p>\n<p>Graham Tippen has been a railway enthusiast from an early age and has much to tell about Marden&#8217;s railway. See the video.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John Hall's eye witness account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1611\" target=\"_blank\">John Hall<\/a> has been mowing the churchyard for 30 years or more. See the video<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steve Nye's eye witness account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1555\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Nye <\/a>witnessed the aftermath of the Marden train crash as a teenager. Read his account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing so fascinating as hearing about the past from those who were there at the time. We are building up a collection of written, oral and video accounts of events and experiences by those who experienced them firsthand. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382\/revisions\/1384"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}