{"id":2,"date":"2013-03-28T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfda.co.uk\/wheelbasenew\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:31:17","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_header no-border\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h3>Lincoln &amp; District Model Railway Club was originally founded in 1977.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Club met at the Sherwood Scout Hut on Furnace Road, in the district of the city called Stamp End.<\/h3>\n<h3>With an original membership of just 5, the chairman was Mr. Ron Harris and the local area provided the majority of it&#8217;s membership.<\/h3>\n<h3>A lack of space for both layouts and members meant them leaving their original Club House in 1979 and going on to set up in The Methodist Church Hall in North Hykeham, where they stayed for the next 9 years.<\/h3>\n<h3>The club then moved again to it&#8217;s current home at The Village Hall in Aisthorpe, which has a much larger Multi Purpose building used by a number of\u00a0 Societies and Interest Groups. This building is ideally situated and very well equipped to host Shows and Exhibitions and also benefits from it&#8217;s own on-site catering facilities, car parking and reasonably good public transport links.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content_header no-border\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>A brief history of the Club<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_body news_content documents history_ie p_margin_left_5\">\n<p><strong>1977-79<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0Club formed by Ron Harris and situated in the Scout Hut on Mansfield Road Nottingham &#8211; <strong>Start Up Membership of 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>1979-88<\/strong> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Club moves to the Methodists Church Hall in Arnold &#8211; <strong>Membership standing at a healthy 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>1988-96<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 This years AGM sees Ron Burchall voted in as Club Chairman &#8211; <strong>Membership standing at a healthy 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>1996-03<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Club moves to the Methodists Church Hall in Arnold &#8211; <strong>Membership standing at a healthy 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>2003-12<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Club moves to the Methodists Church Hall in Arnold &#8211; <strong>Membership standing at a healthy 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>2012-26<\/strong> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Club moves to the Methodists Church Hall in Arnold &#8211; <strong>Membership standing at a healthy 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln &amp; District Model Railway Club was originally founded in 1977. The Club met at the Sherwood Scout Hut on Furnace Road, in the district of the city called Stamp End. With an original membership of just 5, the chairman was Mr. Ron Harris and the local area provided the majority of it&#8217;s membership. A&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/?page_id=2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldmrc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}