{"id":6,"date":"2019-10-20T22:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:02:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/old-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In September 1989 at the end of East Lothian Council&#8217;s Local History Year, a meeting was held in the old Tranent Library to gauge local support for starting a local history society. \u00a0There was a very good turnout and it was agreed to go ahead. A few weeks later a founding committee was set up and our first talk was given in November 1989 by Michael Cox of Gullane History Society.<\/p>\n<p>The Society meets at 7.00pm on the second Wednesday of the month between September and May in the Tranent Day Centre, Sanderson&#8217;s Wynd, Tranent. \u00a0Annual membership is \u00a310. \u00a0Meetings are followed by tea and biscuits and the opportunity for informal chats between members. \u00a0Visitors are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p>For our 2025-2026 programme, please <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/programme\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 1989 at the end of East Lothian Council&#8217;s Local History Year, a meeting was held in the old Tranent Library to gauge local support for starting a local history society. \u00a0There was a very good turnout and it was agreed to go ahead. A few weeks later a founding committee was set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlothianheritage.co.uk\/tranentlocalhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}