{"id":244,"date":"2008-03-19T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/2008\/03\/19\/seaham-site-sussed\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:34:51","slug":"seaham-site-sussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/seaham-site-sussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaham site sussed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Angus of the Seaham online community history project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.east-durham.co.uk\">www.east-durham.co.uk<\/a> has tracked down the probable location of the Seaham sound mirror, though cautions &#8220;it is at least 55 years since I saw it and then only once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s found two men who agree on the location shown below. Apparently the mirror may have been used for shooting practice by the local Home Guard during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunderland1.jpg' title='Sunderland sound mirror'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunderland1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Sunderland sound mirror' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly it would appear it is no longer in existence; when it did exist it looked something like the surviving Sunderland mirror.<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/gb-seaham-map1.jpg' title='Probable location of Seaham sound mirror'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/gb-seaham-map1.jpg' alt='Probable location of Seaham sound mirror' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/gb-seaham-map-2closeup.jpg' title='Probable location of Seaham sound mirror.'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/gb-seaham-map-2closeup.jpg' alt='Probable location of Seaham sound mirror.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Angus of the Seaham online community history project www.east-durham.co.uk has tracked down the probable location of the Seaham sound mirror, though cautions &#8220;it is at least 55 years since I saw it and then only once.&#8221; He&#8217;s found two men who agree on the location shown below. Apparently the mirror may have been used [&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-244","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\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}