{"id":562,"date":"2015-09-01T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:08:57","slug":"armistice-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/2015\/09\/01\/armistice-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘London was fair heaving, perfectly heaving’<\/h1>\n

We’ve got\u00a0a new interview from the Ian Landles Archive (\u00a9 Scottish Borders Council Archive Service) uploaded and\u00a0live on Scran with a full summary. And it’s an exciting one! Former railwayman, George Cairns, born in the Scottish Borders in 1899 and interviewed by Ian Landles in 1981, shares his memories of\u00a0working as a porter and then a signalman on the Borders Railways. He also\u00a0relates his vivid memories of\u00a0the eleventh of November 1918.<\/p>\n

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Before joining the railways, Mr Cairns signed up for the army. This was in the last year of the First World War and Mr\u00a0Cairns was sent to train in Surrey. He\u00a0never saw active service because he\u00a0was struck down with ‘flu during the epidemic of 1918.\u00a0As he recuperated in hospital in Lewisham in London, the Armistice was signed. To celebrate, Mr Cairns was allowed to leave hospital with his pal and\u00a0travel\u00a0up into London. He\u00a0witnessed the crowds, got plenty of attention in his military uniform and made his way through the ‘heaving’ throng of The Strand and\u00a0right up to the gates of Buckingham Palace where he\u00a0read the historic proclamation\u00a0declaring the Armistice which had been pinned there. He also saw\u00a0King George V and\u00a0Princess Mary as they\u00a0paraded through the streets in their carriage.<\/p>\n

It’s a fascinating story and well worth a listen. You can access\u00a0the full interview with George Cairns here<\/a> and find out more about the\u00a0Ian Landles \u00a0Archive on Scran here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And railway fans, watch out for our upcoming @scranlife Twitter campaign\u00a0for The Ian Landles Archive launched to coincide with the reopening of the Borders Railway on 6th September. It’s coming soon #IanLandlesArchive #clickhear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Image<\/strong> \u00a9 National Library of Scotland,\u00a0Cheering Soldiers, Western Front, 11 November 1918<\/a>. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘London was fair heaving, perfectly heaving’ We’ve got\u00a0a new interview from the Ian Landles Archive (\u00a9 Scottish Borders Council Archive Service) uploaded and\u00a0live on Scran with a full summary. And it’s an exciting one! Former railwayman, George Cairns, born in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302062,303363,1306,8496],"tags":[308106,308273,1151,307842],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-collections-on-scran","category-oral-history","category-scottish-borders","category-world-war-one","tag-armistice","tag-ian-landles-archive","tag-london","tag-railways","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/scranblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}