{"id":244,"date":"2014-05-29T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:30:52","slug":"avril-stouse-guide-and-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Avril Stouse &#8211; Guide and author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avril Stouse (nee Maynard) was a Guide and member of the Sunday School at Wesley Hall from 1953 &#8211; 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Avril has been involved in Guiding to this day and has written about her Guiding experiences in a book <em>From Sprites to Dark Horses<\/em>. See the book flyer <a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/whimages\/bookflyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Avril has kindly given us permission to include a chapter from the book which describes her early Guiding at Wesley Hall &#8211; it makes fascinating reading. <a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/whimages\/guiding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She has sent us two pictures too:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?attachment_id=245\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?fit=248%2C351&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"248,351\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avril as a Guide in 1957\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Avril as a Guide in 1957&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?fit=248%2C351&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245\" alt=\"Avril as a Guide in 1957\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?resize=248%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"248\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?w=248&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-a-Guide-in-1957.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avril as a Guide in 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-Lieutenant-with-6th-Plumstead-Common-Guides-Sept-1964.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"246\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?attachment_id=246\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Avril-as-Lieutenant-with-6th-Plumstead-Common-Guides-Sept-1964.jpg?fit=308%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"308,226\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avril as Lieutenant with 6th  Plumstead Common Guides Sept 1964\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Avril as Lietenant with 6th Plumstead Common Guides (after returning to Plumstead after 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\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avril as Lietenant with 6th Plumstead Common Guides (after returning to Plumstead after college)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avril Stouse (nee Maynard) was a Guide and member of the Sunday School at Wesley Hall from 1953 &#8211; 1959. Avril has been involved in Guiding to this day and has written about her Guiding experiences in a book From Sprites to Dark Horses. See the book flyer here. Avril has kindly given us permission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avril Stouse &#8211; Guide and author<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centenary-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CN5E-3W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}