{"id":89591,"date":"2025-10-20T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89591\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:01:08","slug":"stewards-of-wotton-under-edge-bookshop-celebrate-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89591\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stewards&#8217; of Wotton-under-Edge bookshop celebrate 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple purchased the property from two sisters who had inherited it from their father, and could not bear to see it redeveloped into flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were adamant they wanted it to stay as a bookshop so they did actually turn down other offers,&#8221; Mrs York said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we came along and said we&#8217;d like to buy the whole building for our family home and continue it as a bookshop, they said &#8216;yes, we&#8217;d love to sell it to you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so thankful they held out for the right people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the whole town&#8217;s bookshop,&#8221; Mr York added. &#8220;We are just the stewards of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple purchased the property from two sisters who had inherited it from their father, and could not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-89591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}