{"id":3289,"date":"2017-04-20T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:11:53","slug":"the-melksham-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/20\/the-melksham-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melksham Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Miss Caroline Stratton <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Where have you been?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have waited so long for you to join me <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What is Heaven like sweet Charlotte?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It is everything you thought it might be and much more<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>So much more <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I now have knowledge of all the mysteries of time and the universe \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing is hidden <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do take my hand sister and I will assure you of your gentle passage <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When Miss Caroline Stratton died in 1949 she was buried in the same grave as her sister Charlotte who died in 1847<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Melksham Market Place <i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The market place in Melksham is currently being remodelled and is surrounded by a number of orange safety barriers<\/p>\n<p>I was told that the improvements are due to be completed by the summer of 2017<\/p>\n<p>In 1914 an American army unit spent some time in the market place<\/p>\n<p>Neither the soldiers then nor the contractors of today were aware that under the market place there is a long railway tunnel<\/p>\n<p>Which is often used by angels with beautiful skin as they transport the souls of the dead towards Heaven<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Caroline Stratton Where have you been? I have waited so long for you to join me What is Heaven like sweet Charlotte? It is everything you thought it might be and much more So much more I now have knowledge of all the mysteries of time and the universe \u00a0 Nothing is hidden Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289"}],"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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}