{"id":29,"date":"2015-10-10T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2015-11-25T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:15:18","slug":"buildings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_623\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"size-large wp-image-623\" src=\"http:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Y Felin Fach, Blaenpennal\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FF.milhse110912.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Y Felin Fach, Blaenpennal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The buildings on Mynydd Bach represent a record of the skills of the builders and the history of the residents and their lifestyles, showing that the majority of the population lived on a modest<\/p>\n<p>Villages had to be self-sufficient, and this is demonstrated by the variety of tradesmen and women working there including farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, millers, cloth and felt producers, tailors, teachers, religious ministers, leather-goods makers, builders, quarrymen and drovers.<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that the two most important buildings in a village were the chapel (or church) and the mill. The chapel sustained the soul with prayer and song; the mill sustained the body with flour and clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The most well-known buildings in the area were the tai unnos \u2014 houses built in one night, and possibly the basis of some houses of a later date. Early settlers would have sought a clean water supply, so springs on Mynydd Bach would have determined where buildings were established; some holy springs were said to have healing powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buildings on Mynydd Bach represent a record of the skills of the builders and the history of the residents and their lifestyles, showing that the majority of the population lived on a modest Villages had to be self-sufficient, and this is demonstrated by the variety of tradesmen and women working there including farmers, blacksmiths, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaenpennal.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}