{"id":41456,"date":"2024-11-12T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41456"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:59:47","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-scot-seeks-museum-to-house-big-brick-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41456","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Scot seeks museum to house big brick collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/brick.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/brick.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28019\" style=\"width:180px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Cranston started the hobby over a decade ago when he was looking for a brick as a doorstop for his garden shed, and he has a collection of over 4,000 and needs to find them a new home, reports <em>Edinburgh Live.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Edinburgh Live<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While looking for a brick for his shed he came across a white painted brick from a former colliery&#8230;&nbsp; From there, his passion grew, and\u2026 has amassed a huge collection from Scotland\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among his collection he has a fire brick that was salvaged from the SS Politician, which ran aground in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 and was carrying 264,000 bottles of malt whisky\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The eccentric collector shares this passion with his friend Ian Suddaby &#8211; and together they own 6,000 different bricks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 \u2018The idea is that we would look after each others bricks but we want to put it in a museum.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/scottish-man-bizarre-hobby-searches-30257888\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration Mark Cranston started the hobby over a decade ago when he was looking for a brick as a doorstop for his garden shed, and he has a collection of over 4,000 and needs to find them a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,29,35],"class_list":["post-41456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-brick","tag-heritage","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41457,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions\/41457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}