{"id":15988,"date":"2017-07-03T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2017-07-03T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:27:00","slug":"dudleys-black-country-living-museum-forges-ahead-includes-moving-moving-heritage-helped-by-lotterys-9-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15988","title":{"rendered":"Dudley\u2019s Black Country Living Museum forges ahead: Includes moving moving heritage, helped by Lottery\u2019s \u00a39.8m"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BlackCountryMuseum_01-2_west_bromwich_gas_showroom_-_pre_ww2-e1499102724790.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16016\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BlackCountryMuseum_01-2_west_bromwich_gas_showroom_-_pre_ww2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"BlackCountryMuseum 01 2 west bromwich gas showroom pre ww2\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A rare opportunity to save landmark community and commercial buildings from demolition, and rebuild them at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, has been awarded \u00a39.8million from The National Lottery.<\/h3>\n<h5>image Black Country Living Museum<\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The HLF writes:<\/p>\n<p>Some of the buildings identified will be moved brick-by-brick to the museum, including West Bromwich\u2019s Gas Showroom and Dudley\u2019s Woodside Library \u2013 both the focus of strong community support to save them.\u00a0 Others, including Wolverhampton\u2019s Elephant &amp; Castle Pub and Lye\u2019s Marsh &amp; Baxter\u2019s Butchers, will be recreated from archive material and images.\u00a0 The hugely ambitious scheme \u2013 which will create 450 jobs in the local area &#8211; will allow the museum to tell the story of the Black Country up to the closure of the Baggeridge Coal Mine in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive of HLF, said: \u2018The Black Country Living Museum is one of the UK\u2019s most popular open-air museums bringing knowledge of the country\u2019s industrial past to a national and international audience. Our funding, which is made possible thanks to National Lottery players, will help update the wider site making it a visitor attraction truly fit for the 21st century.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The museum will expand by a third, transforming its site with a new historic development focusing on the period 1940-1960. It will also transform the visitor welcome and learning facilities. Andrew Lovett, Director and Chief Executive of the Black Country Life Museum, said: \u2018We would very much like to thank National Lottery players for making such support possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlf.org.uk\/about-us\/news-features\/black-country-living-museum-forges-ahead?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare opportunity to save landmark community and commercial buildings from demolition, and rebuild them at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, has been awarded \u00a39.8million from The National Lottery. image Black Country Living Museum<\/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-15988","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\/15988","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=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}