{"id":1379,"date":"2009-03-02T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/soundmirrors\/?page_id=1379"},"modified":"2019-06-17T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:50:17","slug":"selsey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/selsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Selsey listening post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA sound mirror at Selsey has been converted into a house(!), no.2 East Beach Road.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in August 2018.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/images\/mirror\/soundmirror-selsey-20180811b.jpg\" alt=\"Selsey sound mirror in August 2018\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Known locally as the listening post, the mirror is of a similar design to the ones at <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/boulby\/\" title=\"Boulby sound mirror\">Boulby<\/a>, <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/redcar\/\" title=\"Redcar sound mirror\">Redcar<\/a> and <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/sunderland\/\" title=\"Sunderland sound mirror\">Sunderland<\/a>, but with a roof added, as well as various extensions and a window in the back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey3.jpg\" alt=\"[Selsey sound mirror]\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I visted on 1 May 2004 it seemed to be uninhabited, but it has since been sold and renovated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey4-small.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"[mirror]\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe front of the building is almost unrecognisable as a sound mirror, but the angle of the roof is a clue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey1-small.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"[mirror]\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a window in the rear of the mirror.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/mirror\/selsey2-small.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"[mirror]\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVarious extensions have been built around the mirror, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selsey.org.uk\/?section=otherpages&amp;page=History\">listed Grade II<\/a> in April 1999.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Location<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=Thorney+Island&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Thorney+Island&amp;t=h&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=50.734574,-0.777623&amp;panoid=ht7g2dg_Vs-dWOVgmY3rSA&amp;cbp=11,37.23,,0,6.82&amp;ll=50.733467,-0.777626&amp;spn=0.005867,0.036478&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=Thorney+Island&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Thorney+Island&amp;t=h&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=50.734574,-0.777623&amp;panoid=ht7g2dg_Vs-dWOVgmY3rSA&amp;cbp=11,37.23,,0,6.82&amp;ll=50.733467,-0.777626&amp;spn=0.005867,0.036478&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nThe mirror is in the middle of a road junction on Beach Road, near a small lake. You can&#8217;t really miss the building, but unless you knew what to look for you would never guess what it was! An approximate grid reference is SZ864935 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.multimap.com\/map\/browse.cgi?lat=50.7347&amp;lon=-0.7776&amp;scale=5000\">map<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are buses to Selsey from Chichester which stop nearby, at the East Beach shops.\n<\/p>\n<h2>More<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/tag\/selsey\/\">News and updates<\/a> about the Selsey listening post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sound mirror at Selsey has been converted into a house(!), no.2 East Beach Road. Here it is in August 2018. Known locally as the listening post, the mirror is of a similar design to the ones at Boulby, Redcar and Sunderland, but with a roof added, as well as various extensions and a window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1379\/revisions\/3261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}