{"id":13,"date":"2023-11-11T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-11-12T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T08:51:08","slug":"briagolong-mechanics-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/our-members\/briagolong-mechanics-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Briagolong Mechanics Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The historic Briagolong Mechanics Institute is included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au\/places\/34328\">Victorian Heritage Register<\/a>. Its collection is a rare example of a preserved Mechanics Institute library which reflects the tastes and interests of a Victorian country community from 1874 until the early 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Briag-Mechanics-1-2048x1157.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The History Group meets regularly to catalogue and research the collection.  For more details contact 0418 455 382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Briagolong Mechanics Institute is included in the Victorian Heritage Register. Its collection is a rare example of a preserved Mechanics Institute library which reflects the tastes and interests of a Victorian country community from 1874 until the early 1960s. The History Group meets regularly to catalogue and research the collection. For more details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/74"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonheritage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}