{"id":447,"date":"2008-04-10T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=447"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:24:31","slug":"news-letter-10th-april-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; April 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the Society\u2019s meeting on 1<sup>st<\/sup> April by detailing the forthcoming Social, the Hughenden Manor trip and the Ramble in Hagley Park.\u00a0 She then introduced Greta Lacey, who was to talk on <em>Restoration Old and New \u2013 Kings Norton Grammar School and Saracen\u2019s Head<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Many had seen the BBC Restoration series in 2004 when the two buildings in Kings Norton had won the final vote but none of us was prepared for the riveting story that lay behind this. Greta started with a short history of the Saracen\u2019s Head.\u00a0 Built as a wool merchant\u2019s house in 1492, many alterations had been made to the building during its long history and it had existed as a pub only for 120 years from 1790.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Grammar School dated from 1434-1460 but it had a 14<sup>th<\/sup> Century window.\u00a0 However, much of the detailed history of the building has been lost. It was certainly used as a school during its life but was it built as such?\u00a0 Could it have started out as a chantry chapel?\u00a0 We were left with many tantalising questions \u2013 but few answers!<\/p>\n<p>Greta concluded by recalling the fascinating train of events that followed the phone call from the BBC in April 2004 and that culminated in the buildings receiving over \u00a33m in grant funding for their restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the Society\u2019s meeting on 1st April by detailing the forthcoming Social, the Hughenden Manor trip and the Ramble in Hagley Park.\u00a0 She then introduced Greta Lacey, who was to talk on Restoration Old and New \u2013 Kings Norton Grammar School and Saracen\u2019s Head. Many had seen the BBC Restoration series in 2004 [&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-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}