{"id":1061,"date":"2011-03-23T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:57:39","slug":"avon-dam-near-south-brent-old-photos-from-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/avon-dam-near-south-brent-old-photos-from-the-1960s","title":{"rendered":"Avon Dam, near South Brent &#8211; Old Photos from the 1960&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1062\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avon-dam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-image-1062 size-full\" title=\"Avon Dam near South Brent in Devon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avon-dam.jpg\" alt=\"Avon Dam near South Brent in Devon\" width=\"900\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avon-dam.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avon-dam-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/avon-dam-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avon Dam near South Brent in Devon (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This photograph is of the Avon Dam on Dartmoor, not far from South Brent, and was taken in June 1966. There are more photos in the collection which were taken on the same day and it would appear to have been a family day out. I&#8217;m in some of the pictures, aged 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(From my grandpa&#8217;s collection of old slides &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Digitizing Grandpa\u2019s Old Slides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/digitizing-grandpas-old-slides\">see this post<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph is of the Avon Dam on Dartmoor, not far from South Brent, and was taken in June 1966. There are more photos in the collection which were taken on the same day and it would appear to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/avon-dam-near-south-brent-old-photos-from-the-1960s\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grandpas-old-slides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}