{"id":143,"date":"2021-01-25T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.uk\/?p=143"},"modified":"2022-02-02T23:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:30:29","slug":"branch-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Branch History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever wondered how our Branch got started? The TOMCC itself was founded by a group of enthusiastic Triumph owners in South London in 1949. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first TOMCC Branch in Berkshire was the Reading Branch, founded 12 years later in 1961, and ran for 13 years before closing in 1974. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jack-o-N-950.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"139\" class=\"wp-image-139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jack-o-N-950.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jack-o-N-950-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jack-o-N-950-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><strong>Berkshire Branch meeting circa 1980<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Berkshire Branch was started in 1979 and The first meeting of the Berkshire Branch was held at the Queen Victoria pub on the A4 between Knowl Hill and Hare Hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To read more about the Branch history click the button below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-gray-background-color has-background\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=137\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how our Branch got started? The TOMCC itself was founded by a group of enthusiastic Triumph owners in South London in 1949. The first TOMCC Branch in Berkshire was the Reading Branch, founded 12 years later in 1961, and ran for 13 years before closing in 1974. The current Berkshire Branch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Branch History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}