{"id":344,"date":"2018-11-11T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sunderland\/?p=344"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:38:24","slug":"a-lasting-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sunderland\/2018\/11\/11\/a-lasting-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lasting Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of SI Sunderland, its members are planning to <strong>commission a piece of<\/strong> <strong>art,<\/strong> to stand in the city\u2019s Keel Square.\u00a0 It will be a tribute to Sunderland\u2019s industrious, but largely forgotten, women who worked in the shipyards during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandbid.co.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/header\/public\/images\/campaigns\/keel_square_vision.jpg?itok=r6MHmvJC\" alt=\"Image result for Image of Keel Square Sunderland\" width=\"671\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Sunderland was the biggest shipbuilding city in the world, but when the men went off to war, the brave, industrious women took their place \u2013 welding, riveting and burning, as well as operating cranes, painting and general labouring.\u00a0 Seven hundred women carried out this perilous work, even though the shipyards were a strategic target for German bombers.<\/p>\n<p>SI Sunderland members are working with a group of talented young female students to design the artwork, which will stand as a lasting legacy and become part of the city\u2019s heritage for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 80th anniversary of SI Sunderland, its members are planning to commission a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Lasting Legacy | News | Blog | Events | SI Sunderland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Sunderland : Blog &amp; News : A Lasting Legacy : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Sunderland . 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