{"id":15256,"date":"2017-03-29T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2017-03-29T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:46:29","slug":"fresh-lease-of-life-for-one-of-britains-oldest-slate-mines-as-roof-for-cambridge-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15256","title":{"rendered":"Fresh lease of life for one of Britain&#8217;s oldest slate mines as roof for Cambridge college"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The_Telegraph_website_March2017-e1490809570847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15257\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The_Telegraph_website_March2017-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Telegraph website\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <em>Telegraph<\/em> reports that one of the country&#8217;s oldest Collyweston mines has re-opened and its distinctive limestone tiles will soon adorn one of the roofs at King\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 600-year-old mine, on the outskirts of the Northamptonshire village of Collyweston, had been turned into a builder\u2019s yard following its closure half a century ago. That changed when Nigel Smith, the yard owner\u2019s son, hit on the idea of once again exploiting the material. He said: \u2018Reclaimed slate has become harder to find and so more expensive, so we thought \u2018we\u2019re sitting on top of tons of the stuff, why not use it?\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/03\/08\/centuries-old-slate-mine-re-opens-roof-kings-college-cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph reports that one of the country&#8217;s oldest Collyweston mines has re-opened and its distinctive limestone tiles will soon adorn one of the roofs at King\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15256","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\/15256","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=15256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}