{"id":130,"date":"2016-10-03T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/?p=130"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:34:02","slug":"the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-3-bandroom-improvements-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/2016\/10\/03\/the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-3-bandroom-improvements-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bandroom &#8211; A History (1926-2016) &#8211; Chapter 3  Bandroom Improvements 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14355129_1092843164130312_1799013745209365356_n.jpg\" alt=\"14355129_1092843164130312_1799013745209365356_n\" width=\"424\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14355129_1092843164130312_1799013745209365356_n.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14355129_1092843164130312_1799013745209365356_n-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/>During the 1950s a cattle market was built next to the band hall entrance.<\/p>\n<p>During that decade several of the players took it on themselves to carry out improvements to the bandroom by building an entrance hall, a small toilet to the side and fit new steel framed windows that still survive today.<\/p>\n<p>New drainage pipes were laid by the band members who also dug the drainage ditches for the pipes to be laid in. The chimney stack that served a small coal fire was taken down as well.<\/p>\n<p>The bandroom survives there today becoming part of the retail development in the new millennium.<br \/>\nThe crescent shaped window Survived into the 1980s when the new owners, Ceredigion County Council decided to remove it and block the space up.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-130 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/14369970_1092843167463645_3881072085613335197_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14369970_1092843167463645_3881072085613335197_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/14322583_1092843154130313_6152064716447508042_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14322583_1092843154130313_6152064716447508042_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/14329936_1092843177463644_7761270657163865339_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14329936_1092843177463644_7761270657163865339_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/14355106_1092843200796975_5562531033862952960_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14355106_1092843200796975_5562531033862952960_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>by\u00a0Peter Henley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1950s a cattle market was built next to the band hall entrance. During that decade several of the players took it on themselves to carry out improvements to the bandroom by building an entrance hall, a small toilet to the side and fit new steel framed windows that still survive today. New drainage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14355129_1092843164130312_1799013745209365356_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Votx-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}