{"id":188,"date":"2006-02-18T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:45:21","slug":"a-sunny-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/18\/a-sunny-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"A sunny Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the Pontypridd Boys Grammar School Old Boys&#8217; Association newsletter in the post this morning from John Kelland which reminded me that I took some photographs last July when the school was open to visitors before it closed.  It was quite strange being back there after so many years.  There used to be a strong smell of polish throughout the school when I was a pupil there but unfortunately the buildings are now in a rather sad state with a strong smell of damp and dust. Here&#8217;s a small selection from the photographs of that visit.<\/p>\n<p>War memorial plaques in the assembly hall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716022a.jpg\" id=\"image179\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716022a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716021a.jpg\" id=\"image178\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716021a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image191\" alt=\"20050716061a.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716061a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Art Room (pretty much unchanged from the 60s\/70s).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716024.jpg\" id=\"image180\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rear view of the &#8216;new&#8217; building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716033.jpg\" id=\"image182\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716033.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mural of the school badges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716020b.jpg\" id=\"image177\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716020b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The benches from what was the Chemistry Lecture Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716039.jpg\" id=\"image184\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716039.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The front of the old building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716052.jpg\" id=\"image185\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716052.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rainfall was once measured daily.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716055.jpg\" id=\"image186\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716055.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This house was used for sixth form teaching, in the summer croquet was played on the lawn using a rather fine croquet set from Jaques.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20050716062.jpg\" id=\"image187\" src=\"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/20050716062.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fairly quiet day today, we were invited to Linda&#8217;s for an evening meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the Pontypridd Boys Grammar School Old Boys&#8217; Association newsletter in the post this morning from John Kelland which reminded me that I took some photographs last July when the school was open to visitors before it closed. It was quite strange being back there after so many years. There used to be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/18\/a-sunny-saturday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A sunny Saturday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[121,123,120,131,113,125,117,128,116,114,124,130,122,132,129,119,115,126,118,127],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-images","tag-art-room","tag-assembly-hall","tag-association-newsletter","tag-benches","tag-chemistry-lecture-theatre","tag-croquet","tag-grammar-school","tag-jaques","tag-memorial-plaques","tag-old-boys-association","tag-pontypridd","tag-pupil","tag-quiet-day","tag-rainfall","tag-rear-view","tag-sad-state","tag-school-badges","tag-sixth-form","tag-sunny-saturday","tag-war-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}