{"id":12316,"date":"2014-09-13T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2014-09-13T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:06:22","slug":"abingdon-heritage-open-day-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12316","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Heritage Open Day &#8211; Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Steve for the first two pictures at today&#8217;s Heritage WWI Event on the Market Place. The first shows the recruiting Sergeant filling in the papers for another young Abingdon recruit going to serve King and Country.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091302.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nThe second shows Mr Punch and The Kaiser having a ding dong in front of the children.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091323.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nMr Punch has lost none of his punch with these kids after 100 years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091306.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Peter, also from Abingdon Camera Club, for this picture of the recruitment desk and the two pictures that follow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091307.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nSome lads from Abingdon about to join up for King and Country.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091329.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nwho then go through some initial training, getting it wrong and get an earful.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091317.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, and Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers, joined forces in memory of colleagues from 100 years ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091320.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nCouncillor Angela Lawrence, The Mayor of Abingdon, opened the Heritage Open Day activities at 10am, and is seen here in East St Helen Street.<\/p>\n<p>Window displays showed the history of buildings, and a record of those who went to serve in WWI. There were 16 Properties opened for Heritage Open Day, and there were many windows on the past.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091328.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nThe Community Shop stayed open for an extra day &#8211; showing an exhibition of Abingdon people who served in WWI. All the pictures they collected will become part of the local history collection in the library. They used a 1914 way of counting Saturday&#8217;s visitors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14091330.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day - Saturday\" \/><br \/>\nFinally, unless I get sent more pictures, the earlier recruits returned in modern day uniform to show they really could keep step and march in time in front of their visiting Brigadier, and MP Nicola Blackwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Steve for the first two pictures at today&#8217;s Heritage WWI Event on the Market Place. The first shows the recruiting Sergeant filling in the papers for another young Abingdon recruit going to serve King and Country. The second shows Mr Punch and The Kaiser having a ding dong in front of the children. [&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-12316","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\/12316","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=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}