{"id":1288,"date":"2015-04-21T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:52:17","slug":"beech-caves-rock-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2015\/04\/21\/beech-caves-rock-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beech Caves rock homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just south of Stoke are old rock houses that people used to live in, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ludchurchmyblog.wordpress.com\/places-of-other-local-interest\/beech-caves\/\">Beech Caves<\/a> near Tittensor, a few miles south of Trentham.  Seemingly they&#8217;re being left to the local yobs and vandals.  Might they be restored and turned into a hobbit-y tourist attraction?  <\/p>\n<p>North Staffordshire Naturalists\u2019 Field Club, <em>Annual Report<\/em>, 1878. Sectional Reports : Geology, report on field trip to the \u201cNew Red Sandstone quarry, at Beech\u201d and vicinity.  \u201cNot far from Beech inhabited cottages, cut in the living rock, were observed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-038.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"beech-caves-038\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An old scrapbook cutting from the <em>Sentinel<\/em>, 1920, photographed by Simcock of Dale Hall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-sentinel-cutting-1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-sentinel-cutting-1920.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7872\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-stone-staffs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/beech-caves-stone-staffs.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7955\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just south of Stoke are old rock houses that people used to live in, the Beech Caves near Tittensor, a few miles south of Trentham. Seemingly they&#8217;re being left to the local yobs and vandals. Might they be restored and turned into a hobbit-y tourist attraction? North Staffordshire Naturalists\u2019 Field Club, Annual Report, 1878. Sectional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}