{"id":275,"date":"2016-08-19T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:39:18","slug":"ivydale-road-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Ivydale Road School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_446\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ivydale Road School in 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ivydale-School3-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivydale Road School in 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From: Jack Holman<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Hooray, at last someone has written who actually went to Ivydale Road School! So did my sister and I before we were evacuated to Hurst Green \/Oxted and went to Merle Common School. I spent the last months there mending the shoes of pupils and masters\/mistresses until I returned home to 41 Stuart Road in early 1941. Soon after we received a direct hit; fortunately we were in the Anderson Shelter and survived without any injury.<\/p>\n<p>We were then moved to number 23 and promptly got the full blast of a doodlebug. Again we were moved &#8211; this time to Goose Green.<\/p>\n<p>I had started work at Gordon &amp; Gotch in Farringdon Street, but that\u2019s another story. Meanwhile my sister had also now returned home, and in fact later was working in the tobacco kiosk of the Co-op in Rye Lane when a German plane machine-gunned Rye Lane &#8211; her kiosk got bullets right across the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Jack Holman \u00a0Hooray, at last someone has written who actually went to Ivydale Road School! So did my sister and I before we were evacuated to Hurst Green \/Oxted and went to Merle Common School. I spent the last months there mending the shoes of pupils and masters\/mistresses until I returned home to 41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}