{"id":1566,"date":"2011-01-05T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1566"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:23:34","slug":"bill-peens-eye-witness-account-of-the-bombing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1566","title":{"rendered":"Eye Witness Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please click on the arrow to start.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time I was acting as a runner for the local Fire Brigade: my  job was to go and turn out the local firemen should anything happen.<\/p>\n<p>It  was late in the evening of the 4th, and we heard a low rumble. A small  part of the ceiling fell in and it was decided that the Fire Brigade  should be turned out, with the possibility of  something had happened  quite local, quite near. I left here to go round the corner into  Maidstone Road to call out a fireman who lived a little further down  Maidstone Road.<\/p>\n<p>On turning the corner I ran into a pile of  bricks. It was the chimney of Cornerways had fallen into the road. And  seeing a large crater in Maidstone Road, of course, it was impossible to  get past it at the time. So I turned and went back towards the Church  where another fireman lived, and in due course the fireman turned up.  The rescue started to take place in the ruins of the houses. There was  one or two completely demolished. The Fire Brigade supplied water there  because there was a fire.<\/p>\n<p>And the rescue continued all night locating the bodies that were under the debris&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Bill Peen passed away on 14th October 2008. He is sadly missed by his many friends in the Marden History Group.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please click on the arrow to start. &#8220;At the time I was acting as a runner for the local Fire Brigade: my job was to go and turn out the local firemen should anything happen. It was late in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1130,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1566\/revisions\/1634"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}