{"id":10865,"date":"2014-02-15T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10865"},"modified":"2014-02-15T00:27:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:27:23","slug":"mr-harry-downey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10865","title":{"rendered":"Mr Harry Downey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mr Harry Downey retired from running Bailey Shoe Repairs, the Oxford Mail reported  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/5029803.shoe_repair_shop_ties_up_trade\/\">Shoe Repair Shop Ties up Trade<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3A-zrVVr6hc\/Uv6eC7MHTkI\/AAAAAAAAQwY\/nvA_V1UN9XQ\/s1600\/14021405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3A-zrVVr6hc\/Uv6eC7MHTkI\/AAAAAAAAQwY\/nvA_V1UN9XQ\/s1600\/14021405.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSorry to say that Harry is no longer with us and his funeral is at 2pm on Monday 24 February in St Helens Church &#8211; all are welcome. Thanks to Elizabeth for three pictures taken when Harry was nearing retirement in March 2010.<br \/>\n<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZZ72_0tIeBc\/Uv6eQciJkII\/AAAAAAAAQwg\/LaO0OYAe_Is\/s1600\/14021407.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZZ72_0tIeBc\/Uv6eQciJkII\/AAAAAAAAQwg\/LaO0OYAe_Is\/s1600\/14021407.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBailey&#8217;s opened in 1903 and celebrated 100 years of customer satisfaction in 2003.<br \/>\n<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Gs1AHSBcaFg\/Uv6ekGpFclI\/AAAAAAAAQwo\/a-8NVFWY6HU\/s1600\/14021408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Gs1AHSBcaFg\/Uv6ekGpFclI\/AAAAAAAAQwo\/a-8NVFWY6HU\/s1600\/14021408.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey were located in what was the site of the stables behind the Rising Sun Hotel &#8211; now Barclays Bank.<br \/>\n<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-E234TWTxVFo\/Uv6evfgKmQI\/AAAAAAAAQww\/uC6MpiSK8_w\/s1600\/14021406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-E234TWTxVFo\/Uv6evfgKmQI\/AAAAAAAAQww\/uC6MpiSK8_w\/s1600\/14021406.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry joined Baileys at age 15, became the owner in 1984, and retired in 2010 at the age of 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mr Harry Downey retired from running Bailey Shoe Repairs, the Oxford Mail reported Shoe Repair Shop Ties up Trade. Sorry to say that Harry is no longer with us and his funeral is at 2pm on Monday 24 February in St Helens Church &#8211; all are welcome. Thanks to Elizabeth for three pictures taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}