{"id":1762,"date":"2009-07-12T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2009-07-12T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:00:27","slug":"nasrullah-khan-and-the-dockers-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/nasrullah-khan-and-the-dockers-umbrella\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasrullah Khan and the Dockers Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Workington-based <cite>Times &#038; Star<\/cite> describes an 1895 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesandstar.co.uk\/lifestyle_2_887\/how_michael\/when_a_silloth_weapons_range_welcomed_afghanistan_royalty_1_577205?referrerPath=opinion\n\">visit to weapons ranges at Silloth<\/a> in the UK by The Shahzada Nasrullah Khan, second son of the Amir of Afghanistan. It also says he was impressed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subbrit.org.uk\/sb-sites\/stations\/features\/index.shtml\">Liverpool Overhead Railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>When a Silloth weapons range welcomed Afghanistan royalty<\/h3>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nIt has to be remembered that the Shahzada, who reportedly didn\u2019t speak English too well, was undertaking a long and arduous state visit, was only 20 years of age. He\u2019d travelled all over the country, albeit in his personal <strong>train<\/strong>, having to endure innumerable long and boring addresses from assorted \u201cvery important people.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat did interest him were examples of technological development, he was much taken with <strong>Liverpool\u2019s Overhead Railway<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesandstar.co.uk\/lifestyle_2_887\/how_michael\/when_a_silloth_weapons_range_welcomed_afghanistan_royalty_1_577205?referrerPath=opinion\n\">Times &#038; Star<\/a> 2009-07-02<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Workington-based Times &#038; Star describes an 1895 visit to weapons ranges at Silloth in the UK by The Shahzada Nasrullah Khan, second son of the Amir of Afghanistan. It also says he was impressed by the Liverpool Overhead Railway. When a Silloth weapons range welcomed Afghanistan royalty &#8230; It has to be remembered that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[124,159,178,194],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-nasrullah-khan","tag-silloth","tag-times-star","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}