{"id":6,"date":"2014-09-09T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bedcotemorris.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:03:09","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='layer_slider_1'  class='avia-layerslider main_color avia-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  container_wrap sidebar_right'  style='height: 721px;'  ><\/div><div id='after_layer_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-6'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\r\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-2poa-6f4290470fb37a2656611ec686228fb0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><strong>Hello!<\/strong><\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bedcote Morris are a mixed sex Cotswold Morris side (that&#8217;s team to you and me!) from Stourbridge in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Founded in 1991, Bedcote dance many dances from different traditions including:<br \/>\u2013 <b>Adderbury<br \/>\u2013 Oddington<br \/>\u2013 Lichfield<br \/>\u2013 Bledington<br \/>\u2013 Fieldtown<br \/>\u2013 Abingdon<br \/>\u2013 Upton-Upon-Severn<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The main aim of the side is to have fun and provide colourful entertainment, whilst at the same time, preserving some of our rapidly diminishing English folk traditions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>But why \u201cBedcote?\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBedcote\u201d is the name of the feudal manor which eventually went on to become Stourbridge!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><b>How can I have a go? <\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We are always looking for new members! Even if you have no dancing experience, we would love to have you come along to practice. Practices run from September to April and are on Thursday evenings 8-10pm at Gigmill Methodist Church Hall, Stourbridge. Feel free to come along and have a go!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Want to contact us?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Email us on info@bedcote.com or contact us via our Facebook Page to chat!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedcote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}