{"id":272,"date":"2008-08-21T02:49:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T09:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-08-21T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:07:42","slug":"curious-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/curious-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"CURIOUS KIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ebony camera proved to be of great interest to a group of (bored and drunk) teenagers I came across on the site of the old colliery in <a title=\"Horden on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horden\" target=\"_blank\">Horden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019478.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"_0019478\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019478.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/_0019478-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horden Colliery had been one of the biggest mines in the country. From the beginning of construction in 1900 to nationalisation in 1947 it was owned and operated by Horden Collieries Ltd and\u00c2\u00a0was operated mainly for the purpose of working undersea coal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hordencolliery.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"hordencolliery\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hordencolliery.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the height of operating in the 1930s it employed over 4000 men and produced over 1.5million tonnes of coal a year.\u00c2\u00a0The colliery thrived until the early 1970&#8217;s when water and geological problems occurred. \u00c2\u00a0It finally closed in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ebony camera proved to be of great interest to a group of (bored and drunk) teenagers I came across on the site of the old colliery in Horden. Horden Colliery had been one of the biggest mines in the country. From the beginning of construction in 1900 to nationalisation in 1947 it was owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}