{"id":152,"date":"2007-08-22T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/2007\/08\/22\/a-sound-mirror-of-your-own\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:47:40","slug":"a-sound-mirror-of-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/a-sound-mirror-of-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"A sound mirror of your own!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/selsey\/\">Selsey acoustic mirror<\/a>, known locally as the <q>listening post<\/q> is up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westwitteringproperty.com\/property\/view_product.html?prod=656\">for sale<\/a>, with a guide price of \u00a3120 000 freehold.<\/p>\n<p>Described as <q>Of Non Traditional Construction and Grade II Listed, this property of some historical interest is in need of totally updating.<\/q>. From what I remember of my visit, the estate agent&#8217;s description is pretty much spot on!<\/p>\n<p>It offers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><q>Kitchen, Sitting Room, Bedroom, Bathroom. There are Surrounding Gardens, a basement ideally used as a workshop and a Garage. Vacant Possession.<\/q><\/li>\n<li><q>Surrounding gardens which are currently overgrown with brambles, enclosed by fencing.<\/q><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selsey would be a bit inconvenient for me, and having just bought a house, I&#8217;ve no plans to do it all again! <\/p>\n<p>This mirror is rather interesting, in that there is very little information about it floating around. The design is similar to the First World War era mirrors in the northeast. A couple of years ago when I spoke to Richard Scarth, author of <cite>Echoes from the Sky<\/cite> he said he&#8217;d not been to Selsey to see this one, and didn&#8217;t know much about it. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selsey.org.uk\/NWS\/history.htm\">Selsey Community Website<\/a> says<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Listening Post was in April 1999 recognised as a Grade 2 Listed building. During the 1st World War a listening post was built in Selsey at East Beach to provide early warning of approaching Zepplins. The structure took the form of an &#8220;acoustic mirror&#8221; which was built of concrete and shaped like a modern satellite dish. The structure survived and is currently the subject of great interest due to its rarity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Selsey acoustic mirror, known locally as the listening post is up for sale, with a guide price of \u00a3120 000 freehold. Described as Of Non Traditional Construction and Grade II Listed, this property of some historical interest is in need of totally updating.. From what I remember of my visit, the estate agent&#8217;s description [&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":[57],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","tag-selsey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}