{"id":60,"date":"2025-05-10T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:49:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=60","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Our Museum tells the fascinating story of this historic town of Queenborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a small Saxon settlement to a wealthy Borough and Royal Castle built by Edward III, Queenborough is full of Victorian industrial heritage still evolving to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queenborough was home to over a hundred minesweeping vessels during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Museum houses hundreds of photographs of the Naval vessels as well as historic images of Queenborough in days gone by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with photographs and documents there are many artefacts to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view the court room of the Guildhall, the first on the Isle of Sheppey, after this how about a visit to the dungeon &#8211; we promise not to lock you in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We charge 50p admission. Children free.<br>We welcome group bookings and can supply refreshments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Our Museum tells the fascinating story of this historic town of Queenborough. From a small Saxon settlement to a wealthy Borough and Royal Castle built by Edward III, Queenborough is full of Victorian industrial heritage still evolving to this day. Queenborough was home to over a hundred minesweeping vessels during the Second World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenboroughguildhallmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}