{"id":12044,"date":"2014-08-02T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2014-08-02T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T21:20:41","slug":"in-town-today-alzheimers-society-sale-nostalgia-travel-bus-riverly-club-fete-and-wwi-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12044","title":{"rendered":"In Town Today: Alzheimer&#8217;s Society Sale, Nostalgia Travel Bus, Riverly Club Fete,  and WWI Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080201.jpg\" alt=\"In Town Today\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Market Place this morning the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society held their summer jumble sale. <\/p>\n<p>Plastic sheets were needed to cover books and clothes during the many showers. Bric-a-brac had to fend for itself.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080203.jpg\" alt=\"In Town Today\" \/><br \/>\nNostalgia Travel were near St Helen&#8217;s Church with one of their buses to transport wedding guests, and the town bus gave them a very wide berth.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080214.jpg\" alt=\"In Town Today\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Riverly Club, at Bridge House, there was a summer fete. Local groups and charities had stalls in the reception area (pictured). There was music, and a sing-a-long in the lounge; games and a magician in the gym; and a bouncy castle for grand children outside.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080202.jpg\" alt=\"In Town Today\" \/><br \/>\nI did hear that some people thought the council had got the wrong time on the notices : <strong>World War One Commemoration &#8211; Monday 4th August at 10pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But no, the council is correct. It is <strong>not<\/strong> 10am. People will start to gather from 10pm to mark 100 years since Britain entered the First World War at 11pm. It will be preceded by a reading of the names of those who served in the war &#8211; at St Helen&#8217;s Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Market Place this morning the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society held their summer jumble sale. Plastic sheets were needed to cover books and clothes during the many showers. Bric-a-brac had to fend for itself. Nostalgia Travel were near St Helen&#8217;s Church with one of their buses to transport wedding guests, and the town bus gave them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","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=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}