{"id":12775,"date":"2023-02-04T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2023-02-04T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T22:00:37","slug":"midgham-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/midgham-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Midgham 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was supposed to be an information film <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to Behave in Britain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short section was shot in Midgham in 1943 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An American soldier is seen crossing the lines <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wants to travel to Cirencester <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The station buildings can be seen briefly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as the rustic level crossing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know Midgham station very well and am writing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This poem in one of the austere platform shelters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is raining hard and the whole station is gloomy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast trains pass at intervals and the overhead wires buzz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No longer do humble stopping trains steam into Midgham <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are long dead and now travel only on film <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole idea of progress is rather depressing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As like many I prefer remembering the innocence of history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was supposed to be an information film How to Behave in Britain A short section was shot in Midgham in 1943 An American soldier is seen crossing the lines He wants to travel to Cirencester The station buildings can be seen briefly As well as the rustic level crossing I know Midgham station very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12780,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions\/12780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}