{"id":6374,"date":"2013-08-30T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2013-08-30T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:02:52","slug":"ditherington-ex-workers-tour-before-south-silo-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6374","title":{"rendered":"Ditherington: Ex-workers tour before South Silo demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Former workers are being invited to the site of the world&#8217;s first iron-framed building before demolition work starts as Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury undergoes a three-year regeneration after securing \u00a312.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The project will adapt a number of listed buildings, including the 1797 mill, a kiln, an office and stables, which will become offices.<\/p>\n<p>People will tour the South Silo before it is knocked down next month.<\/p>\n<p>After the mill closed down in 1886 the site was turned into a maltings for the brewery industry, until its closure in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Former engineers, drivers and technicians who worked at the maltings will be among those at an event held by the Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The site in Ditherington, on the outskirts of Shrewsbury town centre, contains seven listed buildings including the world&#8217;s first iron-framed building, according to English Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation took over the buildings in 2005 and created its redevelopment plan alongside Shropshire Council, the Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings and the Homes and Communities Agency.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBC News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-23841629\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former workers are being invited to the site of the world&#8217;s first iron-framed building before demolition work starts as Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury undergoes a three-year regeneration after securing \u00a312.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will adapt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-6374","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\/6374","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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}