{"id":1192,"date":"2009-01-30T00:34:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2009-01-30T00:34:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:34:04","slug":"seaham-sound-mirror-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/seaham-sound-mirror-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaham sound mirror photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mirror-seaham-ivor_parrington.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mirror-seaham-ivor_parrington.jpg\" alt=\"Seaham sound mirror in 1976 (Photo: Ivor Parrington)\" title=\"Seaham sound mirror in 1976 (Photo: Ivor Parrington)\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivor Parrington has sent the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communigate.co.uk\/ne\/seahamfamilyhistorygroup\/page3.phtml\">Seaham Family History Group<\/a> a 1976 photograph of the now demolished acoustic mirror at Seaham.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first picture that I have seen of it. As <a href=\"tag\/seaham\/\">had been reported<\/a>, the design looks like the World War I sound mirrors at <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/boulby\/\">Boulby<\/a>, <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/redcar\/\">Redcar<\/a> and <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/sunderland\/\">Sunderland<\/a> in the northeast, and the one at <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/selsey\/\">Selsey<\/a> in Sussex. The sketch of the reported mirror at <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/hartlepool\/\">Hartlepool<\/a> looks the same too.<\/p>\n<p>This would date the Seaham mirror to about 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there is nothing left now, but the location has been identified as being here:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/gb-seaham-map1.jpg\" alt=\"Probable location of Seaham sound mirror\" title=\"Probable location of Seaham sound mirror\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is some discussion from people who remember it and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahamscenes.com\/SoundMirror.jpg\">painting of it<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahamscenes.com\/page23.html\">Seaham Scenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>thanks to Raymond Thompson of SFHG<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivor Parrington has sent the Seaham Family History Group a 1976 photograph of the now demolished acoustic mirror at Seaham. This is the first picture that I have seen of it. As had been reported, the design looks like the World War I sound mirrors at Boulby, Redcar and Sunderland in the northeast, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46,56],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","tag-northeast-mirrors","tag-seaham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}