{"id":899,"date":"2026-02-23T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/?p=899"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:30:13","slug":"a-fond-farewell-at-blist-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/a-fond-farewell-at-blist-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fond Farewell at Blist Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CC12939E-BD8C-471D-918C-1D6C16E0F363-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Wellington (Telford) Brass Band<\/strong>&nbsp;was proud to perform at&nbsp;<strong>Blist Hill Victorian Town<\/strong>&nbsp;on its final day before beginning an exciting new chapter with the&nbsp;National Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WTBB has been a firm fixture at Blist Hill for many years, and we\u2019ve always loved being part of their festive celebrations and special events. It\u2019s a venue full of character, history and wonderful memories for us as a band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real highlight? We were conducted by none other than Victorian law enforcement himself, PC Jarett! Baton in hand and helmet firmly in place, he kept us in line\u2026 though we\u2019re not sure he\u2019s ready to swap policing for podium duties just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re grateful to have shared so many occasions at Blist Hill and wish everyone involved all the very best as they begin this new chapter with the National Trust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"903\" 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Town&nbsp;on its final day before beginning an exciting new chapter with the&nbsp;National Trust. WTBB has been a firm fixture at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/a-fond-farewell-at-blist-hill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Fond Farewell at Blist Hill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}