{"id":1702,"date":"2023-11-21T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/?page_id=1702"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:06:17","slug":"history-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/?page_id=1702","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/?page_id=1702\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions END -->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #02cee0;\">Group Captain Geoffrey <a style=\"color: #02cee0;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Cheshire\">Leonard Cheshire<\/a> a highly acclaimed Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, who received the Victoria Cross for gallantry, started the charity for disabled ex-servicemen in 1948. Leonard heard of a fellow service man who had fallen terminally ill and was in dire straits with no family, means or without a place to go. Leonard took\u00a0Arthur in and cared for him until his death. From such a small and unplanned beginning the worldwide\u00a0<a style=\"color: #02cee0;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Cheshire_Disability\">Leonard Cheshire Disability<\/a> was born and today there are more than 270 homes all over the world. In 1991 Leonard was created Baron Cheshire in recognition of his charitable work.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--displays history and some hyerlinks leading to different sites--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/220px-Leonard_Cheshire-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Leonard_Cheshire\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #02cee0;\">In 1965 Cheshire Home was started in\u00a0South Africa\u00a0after a visitor from the United Kingdom, holidaying in Durban, realised that there was a desperate need for services for disabled people in South Africa. She made contact with community leaders, committees were set up and Cheshire Home South Africa took its first tentative steps.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #02cee0;\">The first home, Queensburgh, was opened in 1968. Today there are six branches and sixteen homes in this country,\u00a0\u00a0Turfhall Cheshire Home\u00a0being one of them, opened in 1984.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cheshire-homes-KZN-1-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire a highly acclaimed Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, who received the Victoria Cross for gallantry, started the charity for disabled ex-servicemen in 1948. Leonard heard of a fellow service man who had fallen terminally ill and was in dire straits with no family, means or without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turfhall.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}