{"id":10704,"date":"2015-01-12T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2015-01-16T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T10:01:52","slug":"student-house-marks-60th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2015\/01\/student-house-marks-60th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Student House marks 60th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/G20-CWN-Inbox-cake.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth Cake\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/G20-CWN-Inbox-cake.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/G20-CWN-Inbox-cake-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Victoria League Student House, in Bayswater, London, has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of its opening by Princess Alice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The building \u2013 a residential house for full-time students aged 18 to 30 from any Commonwealth or former Commonwealth country \u2013 is owned by the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, one of the oldest Commonwealth charities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">To celebrate the anniversary, the League organised a bus tour in late 2014 to visit some of the buildings relevant to the history of the league and of Student House, including the old headquarters and Victoria League Servicemen\u2019s Clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Trustees, staff, members and students toured central London aboard a 1962 Red Routemaster bus \u2013 the youngest passenger was 15 and the oldest 95.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A light afternoon tea was put on at the Student House, culminating in the cutting of the special 60th anniversary cake by the chairman, Mr Lyn Hopkins, who himself was a resident at Student House from 1973-75. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He said: \u201cLike many residents, I learned of the Student House from a former resident. For many of the new students, it is their first time in London or even Britain. It is a safe, friendly and comfortable place where residents quickly make new friends. I still have some friends in different parts of the world who I first met there 40 years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The cake was donated by the League\u2019s Gold Coast Branch in Queensland.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria League Student House, in Bayswater, London, has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of its opening by Princess Alice. The building \u2013 a residential house for full-time students aged 18 to 30 from any Commonwealth or former Commonwealth country \u2013 is owned by the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, one of the oldest Commonwealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,42,150,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}