{"id":255,"date":"2025-08-22T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:57:58","slug":"local-government-in-a-country-town-everyday-life-in-wotton-under-edge-gloucestershire-england-uk-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/?page_id=255","title":{"rendered":"EVERYDAY LIFE IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a photograph from a Series of Photographs held by the Imperial War Museum showing life in Wotton Under Edge in 1944. Here we meet Mr G F May typesetter for the local newspaper and a parish councillors and &#8220;ardent trade unionist&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.iwm.org.uk\/ciim5\/22\/158\/mid_000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:494px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A portrait of Mr G E May at work setting type in the local newspaper offices in Wotton-under-Edge. Mr May has been a wartime member of the Parish Council since 1942 and works as a compositor at the newspaper. He is chairman of the Friendly Society and, according to the original caption is &#8220;an ardent Trade Unionist&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/corporate\/privacy-copyright\">\u00a9 Imperial War Musuem Image:(D 22041)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a photograph from a Series of Photographs held by the Imperial War Museum showing life in Wotton Under Edge in 1944. Here we meet Mr G F May typesetter for the local newspaper and a parish councillors and &#8220;ardent trade unionist&#8221;. \u00a9 Imperial War Musuem Image:(D 22041)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chastownley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}