{"id":2743,"date":"2019-06-18T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:09:12","slug":"rembembering-my-grandpa-geake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/rembembering-my-grandpa-geake","title":{"rendered":"Rembembering My Grandpa Geake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2746\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"wp-image-2746 size-full\" title=\"William Hellyer Geake (known as Bill)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake.jpg\" alt=\"William Hellyer Geake (known as Bill)\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hellyer Geake (known as Bill)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>18TH JUNE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today marks the 25th anniversary of my Grandpa Geake&#8217;s (<strong><a title=\"William Hellyer Geake\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/familytree\/fam1848.html\">William Hellyer Geake<\/a><\/strong>) death. Here he is in front of his house at Crelake Park in Tavistock Devon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2747\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"wp-image-2747 size-full\" title=\"Bill Geake (25.4.1917 - 18.6.1994)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake2.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Geake (25.4.1917 - 18.6.1994)\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake2-500x278.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/williamgeake2-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Geake (25.4.1917 &#8211; 18.6.1994)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And here Grandpa is sitting in the chair next to me at our house &#8211; Christmas time 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18TH JUNE Today marks the 25th anniversary of my Grandpa Geake&#8217;s (William Hellyer Geake) death. Here he is in front of his house at Crelake Park in Tavistock Devon. And here Grandpa is sitting in the chair next to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/rembembering-my-grandpa-geake\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day","tag-geake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}