{"id":1281,"date":"2010-05-22T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T08:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:33:01","slug":"news-letter-22nd-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter – May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

The speaker at the Society\u2019s May meeting had set himself an interesting task: the subjects of his talk had all disappeared!\u00a0 Ian Bott thrilled his audience with an absorbing presentation on \u2018Lost Mansions of the Black Country\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 Illustrated by a fascinating series of images, our speaker provided a little history on nearly twenty departed houses.<\/p>\n

Ian\u2019s talk started with Sandwell Hall, built on the site of Sandwell Priory, next was Bescot Manor and this was followed by Bradley Hall in Kingswinford, which was dismantled and taken to Stratford as Bradley Lodge.\u00a0 We covered Wollaston Hall, Willenhall Hall and Perry Hall, before seeing Highfields in Halesowen.\u00a0 The saga continued as we saw images through time of long-vanished houses in Wednesbury, Smethwick, Oldbury, Sedgley and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately owners fell on hard times, mine-workings caused subsidence, buildings were gutted by fire and eventually \u2018civic vandalism\u2019 ensured that future generations were denied visiting these splendid structures.<\/p>\n

At a second May event, David Skitt presented an illustrated talk on the Severn Valley Railway<\/em> as a prelude to lunch on the train on 1st<\/sup> August.\u00a0 After a little history and a trip along the line, we all enjoyed an excellent cheese and wine supper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The speaker at the Society\u2019s May meeting had set himself an interesting task: the subjects of his talk had all disappeared!\u00a0 Ian Bott thrilled his audience with an absorbing presentation on \u2018Lost Mansions of the Black Country\u2019.\u00a0 Illustrated by a fascinating series of images, our speaker provided a little history on nearly twenty departed houses. […]<\/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-1281","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\/1281","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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}