{"id":58,"date":"2007-02-18T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-02-18T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T18:00:58","slug":"a-sound-mirror-in-seaham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/a-sound-mirror-in-seaham\/","title":{"rendered":"A sound mirror in Seaham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Thompson of the Seaham Family History Group writes to say that &#8220;One of our elderly residents seems to recall a concrete structure (long gone) which he believes to have been a sound mirror situated on an elevated site in Seaham, County Durham about 2 miles from the coast.&#8221; On\u00a0seeing\u00a0a\u00a0picture of the <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/sunderland\/\">Sunderland<\/a> Carley Hill Mirror he said it was the same design, and another Seaham resident &#8220;remembers it vividly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t\u00a0a\u00a0mirror\u00a0in\u00a0Seaham today, so presumably it has now been demolished, but does anyone know more? The north eastern mirors are all a bit of mystery, no-one seems to know anything about them. While I don&#8217;t really know the area,  from a map I&#8217;d guess that <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/hartlepool\/\">Hartlepool<\/a> and Seaham would be good locations\u00a0for\u00a0mirrors if some kind of chain had exisited incorporating the surviving\u00a0mirrors at Boulby, Redcar and Sunderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Thompson of the Seaham Family History Group writes to say that &#8220;One of our elderly residents seems to recall a concrete structure (long gone) which he believes to have been a sound mirror situated on an elevated site in Seaham, County Durham about 2 miles from the coast.&#8221; On\u00a0seeing\u00a0a\u00a0picture of the Sunderland Carley Hill [&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-58","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\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}