{"id":60047,"date":"2010-01-10T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60047"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:07:41","slug":"air-raid-wardens-1939-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=60047","title":{"rendered":"Air Raid Wardens 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70672\" width=\"763\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-446x300.jpg 446w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-2048x1379.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-150x101.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img109-e-1-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It all has a bit of an air of Dad\u2019s Army about it, and these guys and gals might have got everybody\u2019s backs up with their \u201dPut that light out\u201d, but they did a sterling job of work all the same \u2013 and I seem to remember they were always last to the shelters. Seated middle of second row: Ivy Bassendale and is that her husband standing behind her? John Michael Watson tells us: &#8220;Middle row, second left is my Aunt Alice Watson, fourth left is my Aunt Annie Watson. They had three other sisters, Gladys (the eldest), Ethel and Bessie. They had a younger brother; my Father John Henry Carlton Watson, known simply as Harry. Aunt Gladys, Annie and Alice had a cake and bread shop in the main street, Alice always did the icing on the cakes!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Names todate; back row: Ray Appleton, ??, Tom Bassindale, ??, ??. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Middle row: ??, Alice Watson, Ivy Bassindale, ??, Annie Watson, ??.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Front row: ??, ??.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can anybody put any names to the faces? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of John MIchael Watson, thanks to John Michael Watson and Brian Jemson for the update.<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>It all has a bit of an air of Dad\u2019s Army about it, and these guys and gals might have got everybody\u2019s backs up with their \u201dPut that light out\u201d, but they did a sterling job of work all the same \u2013 and I seem to remember they were always last to the shelters. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlin-how-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60047"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71009,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60047\/revisions\/71009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}