{"id":14345,"date":"2016-12-02T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14345"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:46:57","slug":"original-plans-for-manchester-town-hall-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14345","title":{"rendered":"Original plans for Manchester Town Hall rediscovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Original working drawings of Manchester Town Hall have been rediscovered as part of Heritage Management Plan work by Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture.<\/h3>\n<p>The drawings by Alfred Waterhouse\u00a0were found in the building\u2019s basement by Kirsten McKnight, of Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture. She has been assessing and cataloguing the building\u2019s contents as part of her work on the Heritage Management Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The working drawings are now being kept in specialist climate-controlled conditions at the Archives+ Centre, Central Library. They reveal the impact that the construction work made to the area in the 1870s, including details such as how much the Manchester Corporation had to pay to compulsorily purchase the land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.gov.uk\/news\/article\/7556\/original_plans_for_manchester_town_hall_rediscovered_by_heritage_expert\" target=\"_blank\">View the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original working drawings of Manchester Town Hall have been rediscovered as part of Heritage Management Plan work by Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture. The drawings by Alfred Waterhouse\u00a0were found in the building\u2019s basement by Kirsten McKnight, of Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14346,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions\/14346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}