{"id":663096,"date":"2026-06-28T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663096\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:45:12","slug":"fond-farewell-for-durham-county-council-hq-ahead-of-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663096\/","title":{"rendered":"Fond farewell for Durham County Council HQ ahead of demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For more than 60 years, County Hall has served as the home of Durham County Council. Ahead of its demolition, politicians and staff shared their memories of the big block on the hilltop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brutalist eyesore or brilliant architecture?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whatever their thoughts on the artistic merits of Durham&#8217;s County Hall, more than 100 ex-employees, councillors and members of the public felt moved enough at the prospect of its demise to attend an exhibition celebrating its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is the end of an era,&#8221; says Helen Moss, who attended the display in the hall&#8217;s large exhibition space with her longtime friend and colleague Sharon Dunning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both began working here when they were teenagers in the 1980s and spent decades navigating the oak and sapele-panelled meetings rooms and concrete corridors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 60 years, County Hall has served as the home of Durham County Council. Ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663096","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=663096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}