{"id":4387,"date":"2019-05-14T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:18:14","slug":"burnley-road-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/burnley-road-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley Road School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I walked from my home in Nelson over the moors road to Heptonstall and Mytholmroyd, and whilst I was drawing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnleyroadacademy.org\/calderdale\/primary\/burnleyroad\/site\/pages\/aboutus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnley Road School<\/a> <\/strong>(seen from the fields), a man approached and told me that the former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes<\/a><\/strong> had once been a pupil.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was there up til the age of 6 or 7.\u00a0 Hughes\u00a0was born at 1 Aspinall Street, in\u00a0<a title=\"Mytholmroyd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mytholmroyd\">Mytholmroyd<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0and was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>When my daughter was at school in the 1970&#8217;s some of her friends took\u00a0a residential course at the\u00a0<a title=\"Arvon Foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arvon_Foundation\">Arvon Foundation<\/a>\u00a0which was at Hughes&#8217;\u00a0home at Lumb Bank, West Yorkshire\u00a0&#8211; it promotes writing education and runs residential writing courses. They were taught by Hughes\u00a0there as well as Liverpool poet,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrian_Henri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Henri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4388\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Burnley-Road-Academy.jpg\" alt=\"Burnley Road Academy\" width=\"571\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Burnley-Road-Academy.jpg 571w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Burnley-Road-Academy-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I walked from my home in Nelson over the moors road to Heptonstall and Mytholmroyd, and whilst I was drawing Burnley Road School (seen from the fields), a man approached and told me that the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes had once been a pupil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[165,166,168,164,167,89,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4393,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}