{"id":51,"date":"2016-09-20T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:57:03","slug":"the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-1-1926-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/2016\/09\/20\/the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-1-1926-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bandroom &#8211; A History (1926 \u2013 2016) Chapter 1 &#8211; 1926 \u2013 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14316926_1092838124130816_6745736873084932997_n.jpg\" alt=\"14316926_1092838124130816_6745736873084932997_n\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14316926_1092838124130816_6745736873084932997_n.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14316926_1092838124130816_6745736873084932997_n-260x190.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Previous to 1926 the town band relied on the use of a rehearsal room in the enclosed skating rink next to Capel y\u00a0Morfa opposite the former town hall, now Ceredigion Library. It never was satisfactory and being in a residential area they suffered regular complaints following their rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made by the Aberystwyth Borough Council to build a new band hall on the perimeter of the town in Smithfield, an area<br \/>\nwell known previously for its many foundries, smithies and slaughterhouse. The benevolent Aberystwyth Borough town council, from its funds, built the current bandroom dedicating its use to the town band.<\/p>\n<p>Also funds were raised by the people of the town towards the purchase of a complete set of silver plated brass instruments and percussion for the players.<br \/>\nWith great ceremony, the dignitaries of the town posed with the band outside the entrance to the hall in that inaugural year of 1926.<\/p>\n<p>The band continued successfully as the Aberystwyth Silver band under the baton of Cornelius Campbell Richardes with the Honorary Conductor being the local bookshop keeper and Musician Jack Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>by Peter Henley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous to 1926 the town band relied on the use of a rehearsal room in the enclosed skating rink next to Capel y\u00a0Morfa opposite the former town hall, now Ceredigion Library. It never was satisfactory and being in a residential area they suffered regular complaints following their rehearsals. The decision was made by the Aberystwyth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","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\/09\/14316926_1092838124130816_6745736873084932997_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Votx-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}