{"id":27,"date":"2012-05-26T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:04:13","slug":"william-henry-wilkes-1892-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/william-henry-wilkes-1892-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"William Henry Wilkes 1892 &#8211; 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/mwwila.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/images\/gwwila1.jpg\" alt=\"gwwila1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>William was in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"South Staffordshire Regiment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Staffordshire_Regiment\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">South Staffordshire Regiment<\/a> during the First World War. His pleasures in peace time were fishing and bowling, for which he won many prizes. He was a founder member of the &#8216;Lickey End Working Men&#8217;s Club&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spent the majority of his working life at &#8216;The Austin&#8217; car factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. &#8216;The Austin&#8217; had a tradition of building good quality, solid, British cars.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper clipping\u00c2\u00a0left is of workers from the plant being collected from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lickey End\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lickey_End\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Lickey End<\/a>, (a village situated just north of <a title=\"Bromsgrove\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bromsgrove\">Bromsgrove<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 in\u00c2\u00a0Worcestershire) in an open top lorry during the bus strike of July 1957. William is the one seated on the far right in the flat cap and glasses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is poignant,that at the time of writing William&#8217;s eulogy, the factory that provided him and his fellow workers, past and present, with the means of feeding their families is now under threat of closure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/mwwila.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William was in the South Staffordshire Regiment during the First World War. His pleasures in peace time were fishing and bowling, for which he won many prizes. He was a founder member of the &#8216;Lickey End Working Men&#8217;s Club&#8217;. He spent the majority of his working life at &#8216;The Austin&#8217; car factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. 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