{"id":9161,"date":"2014-12-12T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:36:00","slug":"gregorys-girl-school-flattened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"Gregory&#8217;s Girl School flattened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DEMOLITION work has begun on Abronhill High School, the school made famous in Gregory\u2019s Girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Latest News writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nAbronhill High School was the backdrop for Bill Forsyth\u2019s coming of age romantic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The low-budget film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan was a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>And it transformed the Cumbernauld school and its red ash football pitch in to a movie landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Abronhill High opened in 1978 and was earmarked for closure in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Scotland Gregory&#8217;s Girl stars John Gordon Sinclair and Calire Grogan outside Abronhill High School in Cumbernauld where the film was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite protests it closed to pupils in June and children will now go to Cumbernauld High.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demolitionnews.com\/2014\/11\/25\/video-goodbye-to-gregorys-girl-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the works<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latest-news-headlines.eu\/article\/gregory-039-s-girl-school-flattened-demolition-begins-at-abronhill-high-which-provided-backdrop-for-famous-film\/381886\" target=\"_blank\">EU news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMOLITION work has begun on Abronhill High School, the school made famous in Gregory\u2019s Girl. Latest News writes: Abronhill High School was the backdrop for Bill Forsyth\u2019s coming of age romantic comedy. The low-budget film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9161\">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-9161","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\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}