{"id":313819,"date":"2025-12-13T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313819\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:59:51","slug":"why-do-people-care-so-much-about-sheringhams-1950s-bus-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313819\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people care so much about Sheringham&#8217;s 1950s bus shelter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the situation developed, many people shared why they cared so much about the bus shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After launching her petition, Ms Hart said: &#8220;It&#8217;s used, it&#8217;s respected, there&#8217;s no vandalism on it, which I find quite remarkable. We&#8217;ve maintained this well, as a community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve looked after the artwork inside. People respect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz Withington, Sheringham councillor at North Norfolk District Council, said: &#8220;We were laughing on Saturday saying we were prepared to have Christmas lunch in here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For some people it might just be an old bus stop, but it&#8217;s a whole cultural history of Sheringham in that bus stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had people coming up to us and saying, &#8216;I had my first kiss on my first date with my husband in there&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Pearman, a protester who slept in the shelter, said: &#8220;I believe in this bus shelter. My boss has kindly given me a split shift today, and I&#8217;m back at work at 3 o&#8217;clock until seven, and I&#8217;ll be back here this evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the situation developed, many people shared why they cared so much about the bus shelter. After launching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-313819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}