{"id":381,"date":"2019-02-01T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:35:28","slug":"bill-thorncroft-1921-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/2019\/02\/01\/bill-thorncroft-1921-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"BILL THORNCROFT (1921-2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bill-Thorncroft-2.png?resize=233%2C446\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bill-Thorncroft-2.png?w=233&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bill-Thorncroft-2.png?resize=157%2C300&amp;ssl=1 157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> [from the ECCA website] It is with great sadness that we have to report the recent passing of Bill  Thorncroft of Essex Roads CC whom many will remember as an organiser,  timekeeper, official and President and committee member of the ECCA. He was  admitted into hospital in mid-December and died on Wednesday 23rd  January.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following link &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/An-Appreciation-of-Bill-Thorncroft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"An Appreciation of Bill Thorncroft (opens in a new tab)\">An Appreciation of Bill Thorncroft<\/a>&#8221; is to a PDF file written by  another ECCA President, Dick Spanton, also sadly no longer with us. The document  was produced for Bill&#8217;s 90th birthday and should be seen as such but it really  sums up just what Bill achieved in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Thorncroft&#8217;s funeral will be Thursday 21 February at 12.30pm at Bentley Crematorium, Ongar Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 9RZ. No flowers but donations in Bill&#8217;s name to the Royal British Legion, a charity close to his heart, are welcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[from the ECCA website] It is with great sadness that we have to report the recent passing of Bill Thorncroft of Essex Roads CC whom many will remember as an organiser, timekeeper, official and President and committee member of the ECCA. He was admitted into hospital in mid-December and died on Wednesday 23rd January. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bill-Thorncroft3.png?fit=233%2C242&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pabiGU-69","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vttaea.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}