{"id":2552,"date":"2023-03-18T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2022-12-11T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:20:55","slug":"the-former-crumlin-road-linen-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/18\/the-former-crumlin-road-linen-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Former Crumlin Road Linen Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Crumlin Road is famous for a number of old mill buildings that used to employ thousands of local girls and women as spinners, weavers and workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include the Ewart Mill, built for&nbsp;William Ewart, who was a cotton trader and politician who switched his interests to the production of linen, which at the time became the leading industry in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another local mill, Edenderry Mill, which dates back to Victorian times, has been converted into an apartment complex consisting of 55 flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast? Check out my tours <a href=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/booking\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gfd80df\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-gfd80df gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220704_100920-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crumlin Road is famous for a number of old mill buildings that used to employ thousands of local girls and women as spinners, weavers and workers. These include the Ewart Mill, built for&nbsp;William Ewart, who was a cotton trader and politician who switched his interests to the production of linen, which at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220704_101159-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}