{"id":426,"date":"2015-07-16T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=426"},"modified":"2015-07-26T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:42:51","slug":"the-high-wych-gang-reunified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"The High Wych Gang reunited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The below picture was sent to me by Eric Willison,\u00a0 Readers of my articles may remember a group of (then) young people members of a local\u00a0 youth club who were also involved in plays in the village hall.\u00a0 The High Wych &#8220;gang&#8221; also often met in the upstairs room at the Hand and Crown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/HIGH-WYCH-GANG-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-427 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/HIGH-WYCH-GANG-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"HIGH WYCH GANG 2015\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/HIGH-WYCH-GANG-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/HIGH-WYCH-GANG-2015-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a>Recently the meanwhile older (and wiser?) gang members met at the Manor of Groves Hotel. I am told they do not mind this photograph being posted here.\u00a0 Rasing their glasses are:\u00a0\u00a0 Back row left to right: Eric Willison, Bob Springham, John Springham, Rosemary Felstead n\u00e9e Springham, Sandra Lant n\u00e9e Helmer,\u00a0 Carol Springham n\u00e9e Cutting,\u00a0 Bob Lant, Alec Felstead and Fred Morris.\u00a0 Front row: Chris Bullock , Sonia Willison n\u00e9e Towers, Ann Morris n\u00e9e Buckley and finally Janet Springham n\u00e9e Needham. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Hand-Crown-High-Wych-Youth-c1960-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-350 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Hand-Crown-High-Wych-Youth-c1960-s-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Hand &amp; Crown &amp; High Wych Youth c1960 s\" width=\"459\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t resist contrasting this with a picture from the olden days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below picture was sent to me by Eric Willison,\u00a0 Readers of my articles may remember a group of (then) young people members of a local\u00a0 youth club who were also involved in plays in the village hall.\u00a0 The High Wych &#8220;gang&#8221; also often met in the upstairs room at the Hand and Crown. Recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}