{"id":1715,"date":"2009-05-10T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2009-05-10T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T19:00:04","slug":"hidden-things-to-see-and-do-from-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/hidden-things-to-see-and-do-from-the-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hidden things to see and do&#8217; from the Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sound mirrors &#8211; and this website &#8211; got a mention in the Observer&#8217;s travel section on 5 April 2009. The piece formed part of the Military sites&#8221; category in a series about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/series\/secret-britain\">Secret Britain<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;All around us lie overgrown and forgotten sites with fascinating stories to tell, says Iain Sinclair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Acoustic mirrors, various locations<\/h3>\n<p>In the middle of a field in Kilnsea, Yorkshire there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/kilnsea\/\">15-foot-high concave concrete structure resembling a satellite dish<\/a>. It&#8217;s actually an acoustic (or sound) mirror, used during the first world war to detect enemy engine sounds. They are a common fixture along the British coast, including at Kilnsea (OS map ref: TA 411167), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/hythe\/\">Hythe in Kent<\/a> (OS map ref: TR138344) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/denge\/\">Denge on the Dungeness peninsula<\/a> (OS map ref: TR070215), which recently featured in the new Prodigy music video, Invaders Must Die.<br \/>\n<cite>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2009\/apr\/05\/military-sites-britain\">Observer<\/a><\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sound mirrors &#8211; and this website &#8211; got a mention in the Observer&#8217;s travel section on 5 April 2009. The piece formed part of the Military sites&#8221; category in a series about Secret Britain &#8211; &#8220;All around us lie overgrown and forgotten sites with fascinating stories to tell, says Iain Sinclair&#8221;. Acoustic mirrors, various [&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":[23,32,37,47],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","tag-denge","tag-hythe","tag-kilnsea","tag-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}