{"id":6506,"date":"2013-09-27T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2013-09-27T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:20:58","slug":"tha-on-hertage-open-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6506","title":{"rendered":"THA on Hertage Open Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Heritage Alliance (THA) has provided an update on the success of England\u2019s Heritage Open Days (HODs).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THA writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>The 12th-15th of September saw 4,560 properties open their doors\u2013 many welcoming an unprecedented number of visitors. In Liverpool a record 8,000 people took the chance to see around Park Hospital and the Seaman\u2019s Orphanage; over 2,000 competitors flocked to the streets of St Albans to take part in its infamous Heritage Open Days Monopoly game; whilst Porthcurno Telegraph Museum in Cornwall and Portland Works in Sheffield broke their annual visitor records.<\/p>\n<p>The programme itself shone with a particularly dazzling array of quirky properties and \u2018experiential\u2019 events. Tours got snapped up, particularly in the case of five de-commissioned HM Prisons, one of which had all 520 places fully booked within 24 hours of being released!<\/p>\n<p>The success of the event, however, is testament to the hundreds of volunteers who have not only flung open their doors but have yet again, filled the days with their time, passion and boundless energy, despite some adverse weather conditions. Thank you to all involved!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To see more pictures, go to\u00a0the HODs scrapbook\u00a0at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/directory\/scrapbook\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Alliance (THA) has provided an update on the success of England\u2019s Heritage Open Days (HODs).\u00a0 THA writes: The 12th-15th of September saw 4,560 properties open their doors\u2013 many welcoming an unprecedented number of visitors. In Liverpool a record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6506\">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-6506","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\/6506","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=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}