{"id":57938,"date":"2018-03-01T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57938"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:25:52","slug":"first-house-in-dormanstown-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57938","title":{"rendered":"First House in Dormanstown 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3434\" height=\"2650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1.jpg 3434w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1-389x300.jpg 389w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1-150x116.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img369-c-1-400x309.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3434px) 100vw, 3434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This image has the comment on the reverse: &#8220;First complete steel and Hy Rib house&#8221; at Dormanstown; known as &#8216;Dorlonco&#8217;,the design was n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">amed after Dorman Long the steel company at Warrenby to house the workers for the steel works, they were designed by Architects:\u00a0 Stanley Davenport Adshead, Ramsey and Albert Abercrombie. The builders were Jones and Sons of Westminster and Costain Brothers of Liverpool; Arch Aubrey uncle of Geoff Kitching&#8217;s father worked on these houses when they were first being built and evidently took this image. O<\/span><\/span>wing to a shortage of bricks <span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the houses were built with steel frames and clad with concrete, but were modestly elegant affairs in the Georgian style. The first 300 houses were built in two styles: kitchen houses for manual workers and parlour houses for clerical staff; Gas was supplied free to every house. When completed in 1920, Dormanstown housed 342 families. The last of the &#8216;Dorlonco&#8217; houses were demolished in 1979; the streets of Dormanstown still carry names linked to the builders, Architects and even the steel works manager (Ennis Road; which was the original line for the light railway that was built to carry materials on the 850 acre site). <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Geoff Kitching.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>This image has the comment on the reverse: &#8220;First complete steel and Hy Rib house&#8221; at Dormanstown; known as &#8216;Dorlonco&#8217;,the design was named after Dorman Long the steel company at Warrenby to house the workers for the steel works, they were designed by Architects: Stanley Davenport Adshead, Ramsey and Albert Abercrombie. The builders were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redcar-and-marske","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57943,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57938\/revisions\/57943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}