{"id":27,"date":"2017-06-06T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T10:42:24","slug":"clappergate-at-oakcroft-gardens-cross-o-the-hill-malpas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/clappergate-at-oakcroft-gardens-cross-o-the-hill-malpas\/","title":{"rendered":"Clappergate at Oakcroft Gardens, Cross o&#8217; the Hill, Malpas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Clappergate-open-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Clappergate-open-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Clappergate-open-copy.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/clappergate-closed-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/clappergate-closed-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/clappergate-closed-copy.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I found that there was once a clappergate on a path in Wrexham, built in Victorian times to let ladies in long dresses use the path, I&#8217;ve always wanted to build one. However on that path Wrexham County put in a new gate. So when Mehr Fardoonji of Oakcroft Gardens asked me to build one into her woods at Cross O&#8217; the Hill in memory of a friend with whom she used to visit one at the RHS gardens, I designed and built one with the help of a friend. At first the gate didn&#8217;t clap due to the wet treated wood but when it dried the sawn post clapped as it closed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I found that there was once a clappergate on a path in Wrexham, built in Victorian times to let ladies in long dresses use the path, I&#8217;ve always wanted to build one. However on that path Wrexham County put in a new gate. So when Mehr Fardoonji of Oakcroft Gardens asked me to build &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/clappergate-at-oakcroft-gardens-cross-o-the-hill-malpas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clappergate at Oakcroft Gardens, Cross o&#8217; the Hill, Malpas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordonemery.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}