{"id":44005,"date":"2025-09-05T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44005"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:39:44","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-historic-park-hill-housing-development-model-photos-found-in-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44005","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Historic Park Hill Housing development model photos found in attic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A remarkable collection of historic photographs documenting the planning and development of Sheffield&#8217;s famous Park Hill housing estate has been discovered in an attic, revealing intimate details about one of Britain&#8217;s most significant post-war architectural projects, reports <em>SayArt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>SayArt<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The photographs were found by Nicholas Pawlik, a London-based architect who runs the practice Pawlik Wiedmer, after his grandmother Audrey Smith died in May at the age of 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The precious photographs had been stored in the eaves of Audrey&#8217;s house for the past 20 years\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction of Park Hill took place between 1957 and 1961, transforming Sheffield&#8217;s skyline with its massive concrete structure&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The financial details of the original project, as revealed in the discovered documents, demonstrate remarkable value for public investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.sayart.net\/amp\/1065626407039464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable collection of historic photographs documenting the planning and development of Sheffield&#8217;s famous Park Hill housing estate has been discovered in an attic, revealing intimate details about one of Britain&#8217;s most significant post-war architectural projects, reports SayArt.<\/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":[48,6,18,29,11,500],"class_list":["post-44005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-architecture","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-heritage","tag-housing","tag-photgraphs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44005","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=44005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44006,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44005\/revisions\/44006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}