{"id":177,"date":"2017-08-09T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-08-09T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:13:47","slug":"lions-commemorative-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Lions Commemorative Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-178 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bench-2017-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bench-2017-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bench-2017-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bench-2017-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Lions Bench, originally situated in Colquhoun Square, is now located on the West Esplanade.<br \/>\nThe bench was donated in 1974 to recognise the contribution made by well known civic leaders, Cloudy Williamson and Alex Gillespie who were founding members of Helensburgh Lions Club.<br \/>\nUnfortunately the years had taken its toll of the bench which was in very poor condition.<br \/>\nAs this is the Centenary of the founding of Lions Clubs International in 1917 it was decided to renovate the bench to mark the event.<br \/>\nLong serving Lions Club members Derek Urquhart and Brian Stephenson took up the challenge and with the help of Helensburgh Community Council and the co-operation of the Local Authority Amenities Department restored the bench to its former glory and installed a plaque to commemorate the refurbishment.<br \/>\nShould any other &#8220;owners&#8221; of benches need their bench renovating Derek and Brian would \u00a0be pleased to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions Bench, originally situated in Colquhoun Square, is now located on the West Esplanade. The bench was donated in 1974 to recognise the contribution made by well known civic leaders, Cloudy Williamson and Alex Gillespie who were founding members of Helensburgh Lions Club. Unfortunately the years had taken its toll of the bench which &#8230; <a title=\"Lions Commemorative Bench\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/?p=177\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lions Commemorative Bench\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}