{"id":35540,"date":"2025-08-19T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/huge-fire-at-abandoned-woolton-hall-mansion-in-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:53:04","slug":"huge-fire-at-abandoned-woolton-hall-mansion-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/huge-fire-at-abandoned-woolton-hall-mansion-in-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire at abandoned Woolton Hall mansion in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Firefighters are tackling a major blaze at an abandoned Grade I-listed manor house in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Built in 1704, Woolton Hall previously served as a hotel, an army hospital, a convent and a school but had fallen into disrepair in recent years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service arrived at the site, on Speke Road in Woolton, at 20:16 BST and have closed roads in the area as crews try to bring the fire under control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Drone footage shared with the BBC shows the building&#8217;s roof completely engulfed in flames and partially collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy7yjv82r25o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are tackling a major blaze at an abandoned Grade I-listed manor house in Liverpool. Built in 1704, Woolton Hall previously served as a hotel, an army hospital, a convent and a school but had fallen into disrepair in recent years. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service arrived at the site, on Speke Road in Woolton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[399,666,672,2720,1145,11492,9650],"class_list":["post-35540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-abandoned","tag-fire","tag-hall","tag-huge","tag-liverpool","tag-mansion","tag-woolton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35542,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions\/35542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}