{"id":136,"date":"2020-02-14T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=136"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:35:19","slug":"church-marks-75th-anniversary-of-wwii-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Church marks 75th anniversary of WWII bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/Bomb_damage_to_Presbyterian_Church_House_2.jpg\" alt=\"Bomb damage to Presbyterian Church House 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;float: right\" \/>The morning of 9 February 1945 started off much like any other at Presbyterian Church House, Tavistock Place, London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff arrived at their desks for a busy day of work and by the afternoon, colleagues, delegates, ministers and lay people from across the country gathered for a conference with the newly formed British Council of Churches\u2019 Department of International Friendship.<\/p>\n<p>When the conference had finished, the Revd William Thorburn Elmslie, General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of England, made his way to another appointment \u2013 a church extension committee meeting which was also being held in the building, now the central office for the United Reformed Church (URC).<\/p>\n<p>He never made it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3342-church-house-marks-75th-anniversary-of-second-world-war-bombing.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of 9 February 1945 started off much like any other at Presbyterian Church House, Tavistock Place, London. Staff arrived at their desks for a busy day of work and by the afternoon, colleagues, delegates, ministers and lay people from across the country gathered for a conference with the newly formed British Council of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-urc-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/136\/church-marks-75th-anniversary-of-wwii-bombing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}