{"id":337,"date":"2017-04-30T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2022-04-30T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:56:28","slug":"heritage-lottery-first-world-war-then-and-now-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/2017\/04\/30\/heritage-lottery-first-world-war-then-and-now-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Lottery \u201cFirst World War: Then and now\u201d fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12782\"><span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12784\">The Melton Old Church Society is delighted to announce that it has been awarded&nbsp;<span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12785\"> <\/span>\u00a39, 800 from the Heritage Lottery \u201cFirst World War: Then and now\u201d fund.<span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12786\">&nbsp; <\/span>We would like to thank our members, our visitors and the many people who have helped, supported and guided us during the course of making this application and, most importantly, <\/span><span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12788\">National Lottery players. Our project will focus on <\/span><span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12790\">addressing the damp in the church tower, strengthening the belfry floor and conserving and re-hanging the WW1 grave markers. Interpretation labels giving information about each grave marker will help our visitors to find out more about this nationally important and rare collection.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12791\"><span id=\"x_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493548607708_12793\">29\/04\/17 &#8211; Our first site meeting with our builder, Dave Casey from Historic Build, to discuss the removal and safe keeping of the WW1 grave markers before building work begins.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0208.jpg 640w, https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0208-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSCF0208-425x319.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-333 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/english_landscape_black-1024x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/english_landscape_black-1024x242.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/english_landscape_black-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/english_landscape_black-768x182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/english_landscape_black-425x101.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melton Old Church Society is delighted to announce that it has been awarded&nbsp; \u00a39, 800 from the Heritage Lottery \u201cFirst World War: Then and now\u201d fund.&nbsp; We would like to thank our members, our visitors and the many people who have helped, supported and guided us during the course of making this application and, most importantly, National Lottery players. Our project will focus on addressing the damp in the church tower, strengthening the belfry floor and conserving and re-hanging the WW1 grave markers. Interpretation labels giving information about each grave marker will help our visitors to find out more about this nationally important and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/2017\/04\/30\/heritage-lottery-first-world-war-then-and-now-fund\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-claire","post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltonoldchurch.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}