{"id":628777,"date":"2026-06-09T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:05:08","slug":"naval-house-at-chathams-historic-dockyard-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628777\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval house at Chatham&#8217;s historic dockyard restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the oldest intact naval buildings in the UK has been brought back to life after major restoration works &#8211; which have revealed some fascinating artifacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Commissioner&#8217;s House in the Historic Dockyard Chatham was built in 1704, but has been largely empty and unused since being left vacant in 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has, however, been used as a filming location for the the popular BBC television show Call The Midwife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, work is complete and the building, described as &#8220;the jewel in the crown&#8221; of the dockyard, will be open to visitors once again this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the oldest intact naval buildings in the UK has been brought back to life after major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}