{"id":735,"date":"2025-10-02T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/?p=735"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:52:50","slug":"john-chapmans-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/02\/john-chapmans-90th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"John Chapman&#8217;s 90th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John is a founder member of Project Purley, and has contributed a huge amount of research to the history of Purley on Thames, much of which is in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/project-purley-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website archives<\/a>.\u00a0 He was also instrumental in organising the move of the Barn from Belleisle to Goosecroft, when the Trentham&#8217;s site was developed for housing.\u00a0 All of us owe him a great debt of gratitude for his perseverance over several years in saving this beautiful building, which has become the main community space in the village.<\/p>\n<p>John turned 90 on 30th September 2025, and to contribute to his celebrations, Project Purley gave him a birthday cake at the VJ day anniversary meeting in the Barn.\u00a0 It was an excellent cake, and he didn&#8217;t get to take much of it home!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/img_3422\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3422-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Chapman and his 90th birthday cake; presentation by Marjorie Butler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John is a founder member of Project Purley, and has contributed a huge amount of research to the history of Purley on Thames, much of which is in our website archives.\u00a0 He was also instrumental in organising the move of the Barn from Belleisle to Goosecroft, when the Trentham&#8217;s site was developed for housing.\u00a0 All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/02\/john-chapmans-90th-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Chapman&#8217;s 90th Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project-purley.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}