{"id":592,"date":"2016-02-03T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-02-03T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:29:17","slug":"jane-lydia-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Jane Lydia Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-un-dated-high-wych-green-reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-un-dated-high-wych-green-reduced-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"hw un dated high wych green reduced\" width=\"536\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-un-dated-high-wych-green-reduced-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-un-dated-high-wych-green-reduced-1024x697.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-un-dated-high-wych-green-reduced.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a>in the centre of our village are two rows of cottages. One is still referred to as the Helmer &amp; Dyer officeds although that company moved out quite a while ago. The other are known by some as the &#8220;pink cottages&#8221; although only one of them is now a pinkish white. In the middle is the green where between 1865 and 1919 a pump stood.\u00a0 The picture above was taken around 1911-12. We know that because at HALS a postcard version was found with a date stamp from 19 13. The woman in the picture was Jane Lydia Bird. The boys in the front mst probably her sons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-25-or-so-jane-lydia-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-25-or-so-jane-lydia-bird-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"hw 25 or so jane lydia bird\" width=\"287\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-25-or-so-jane-lydia-bird-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-25-or-so-jane-lydia-bird-632x1024.jpg 632w, http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hw-25-or-so-jane-lydia-bird.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second picture\u00a0 was taken some 10-15 years later and shows the same Jane Lydia Bird in front of her cottage which was the one on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the centre of our village are two rows of cottages. One is still referred to as the Helmer &amp; Dyer officeds although that company moved out quite a while ago. The other are known by some as the &#8220;pink cottages&#8221; although only one of them is now a pinkish white. In the middle is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}