{"id":2632,"date":"2016-12-01T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2017-01-11T03:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:18:41","slug":"fifty-sheds-of-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Sheds of Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2633 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0b4b97da9e81ddfc68b29783b5195e1e.jpg\" alt=\"0b4b97da9e81ddfc68b29783b5195e1e\" width=\"197\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0b4b97da9e81ddfc68b29783b5195e1e.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/0b4b97da9e81ddfc68b29783b5195e1e-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Back in the 70s the old Washery at Blaengarw was demolished to make way\u00a0for a more modern building.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to get a job on the new site as a &#8216;handyman \/ teaboy&#8217;\u00a0which involved generally helping the site craftsmen, steel erectors, welders\u00a0etc.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The steel girder framework went together like a giant Meccano set.\u00a0Once it was up the site boss asked me if I wanted some weekend work,\u00a0painting the lot with primer; the paint was already stored in a lock-up on\u00a0site.<br \/>\nCome the morning of the painting, the shed was opened and Lo and Behold,\u00a0the paint had vanished! The Police were called in, but after some desultory\u00a0enquiries, nothing ever came of it. More paint was ordered and the job was\u00a0completed in time for the Brickies to start on the block work. It was funny though, and probably coincidental, how on the hillsides surrounding us, it appeared that every shed and pigeoncote in the Garw was sporting a very fetching coat of grey paint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 70s the old Washery at Blaengarw was demolished to make way\u00a0for a more modern building. I was lucky enough to get a job on the new site as a &#8216;handyman \/ teaboy&#8217;\u00a0which involved generally helping the site craftsmen, steel erectors, welders\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33,62],"tags":[173,211,44,212,210],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colliery","category-local-stories","category-mining-2","tag-colliery","tag-grey","tag-mine","tag-paint","tag-shed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}