{"id":209,"date":"2013-02-25T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2020-07-03T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T11:54:51","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/club-info\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/breaststroke-club-colours.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/breaststroke-club-colours.gif\" alt=\"breaststroke club colours\" width=\"97\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>Perry Beeches Swimming Club was started by Brian Phelps in 1983. This is the very first advert that was placed in the local paper:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FirstAdvert1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-705 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FirstAdvert1-200x300.png\" alt=\"FirstAdvert\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FirstAdvert1-200x300.png 200w, http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/FirstAdvert1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry Beeches Sutton Swim Squad is a\u00a0teaching and competitive swimming club based in Birmingham.\u00a0 It came about as the result of a merger between Perry Beeches Swimming Club and Triple S Swimming Club in 2003.\u00a0 This resulted in a large squad of swimmers enabling us to compete and be very successful in a variety of leagues, open meets and friendly galas.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NationalDiddyFinals1993.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NationalDiddyFinals1993-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"NationalDiddyFinals1993\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>Former Perry Beeches swimmers:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Ruckwood\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Ruckwood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Gillingham#Personal_life\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Gillingham#Personal_life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In more recent years, due to the tragic death of Eddie Blight in May 2008, we were joined by the swimmers from Westminster Swimming Club.\u00a0 \u00a0We compete across the Midlands at various pools mainly on a Saturday evening, we swim as a team to gain league points or to compete for trophies at friendly galas.\u00a0 We also encourage our swimmers to take part in Open Meets to achieve Personal Best times for themselves and to win medals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OldBeechesPic1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OldBeechesPic1-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"OldBeechesPic1\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OldBeechesPic1-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OldBeechesPic1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TeamPhoto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TeamPhoto-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"TeamPhoto\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TeamPhoto-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TeamPhoto.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Beeches Swimming Club was started by Brian Phelps in 1983. This is the very first advert that was placed in the local paper: Perry Beeches Sutton Swim Squad is a\u00a0teaching and competitive swimming club based in Birmingham.\u00a0 It came about as the result of a merger between Perry Beeches Swimming Club and Triple S &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/club-info\/history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/7516"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}