{"id":1270,"date":"2011-12-14T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T08:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:30:20","slug":"news-letter-14th-december-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; December 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s last meeting of 2011 was a special event to celebrate the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Birthday of the HHFS Research Group.\u00a0 The Group\u2019s founder, Tom Pagett, started off with a short account of how the group came into being and then went on to describe their first project to record the remains of the forty or so watermills on two local streams.\u00a0 Following on was Irene Oliver who talked about the project to record farm buildings before they were converted to other uses: she illustrated this by concentrating on the survey of Brakemill Farm.\u00a0 Sheila Pearson spoke next on The Field House and explained how the group had succeeded in linking 1914 garden drawings by Gertrude Jekyll to the physical remains on the ground.\u00a0 The team had followed this up with dowsing to glean more information.\u00a0 Don Freeth then showed the photographs he had taken when the old sewage farm was replaced by the modern pumping station at the end of Cavendish Drive.\u00a0 The presentations were concluded by a tiny sample of the many hours of oral history that members of the group had recorded over the years \u2013 a precious resource that is often overlooked.\u00a0 To round the evening off, the 76 members and visitors enjoyed a buffet, accompanied by a specially made birthday cake.\u00a0 Dr Mike Hodder, Birmingham City Council Planning Archaeologist, proposed a vote of thanks to the Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s last meeting of 2011 was a special event to celebrate the 21st Birthday of the HHFS Research Group.\u00a0 The Group\u2019s founder, Tom Pagett, started off with a short account of how the group came into being and then went on to describe their first project to record the remains of the forty or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}