{"id":12409,"date":"2014-09-27T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2014-09-27T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:22:43","slug":"ock-street-fire-station-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12409","title":{"rendered":"Ock Street Fire Station 50th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092701.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nAt 11:00 the Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Angela Lawrence, together with the Oxfordshire Chief Fire Officer, Dave Etheridge, opened the day&#8217;s events. The Mayor then unveiled a plaque celebrating 50 years of The Abingdon Fire Station on Ock Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092719.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nAt 12:00 there were Group photos. There were many present, former, and possibly future colleagues of the Fire Service in the pictures.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092725.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nAt 13:00 there was Bun throwing from the top of the fire station tower.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092705.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nThe people of Abingdon love a bun throw. Some buns had the number 50 inscribed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092709.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nAt 14:00 there was Morris Dancing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092711.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nAnd at 15:00 the event was closed with a release of balloons. The winning balloon wins a holiday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14092723.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Station 50th anniversary\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout the day there was the chance to take part in Fire Service activities, from climbing the ladder, as demonstrated in the picture by one of the firemen, to directing a fire hose, to going up in the hydraulic lift, and going in the fire engines.<\/p>\n<p>There were also stalls, some very good cakes, and an exhibition about the Abingdon Fire Service from early years through to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:00 the Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Angela Lawrence, together with the Oxfordshire Chief Fire Officer, Dave Etheridge, opened the day&#8217;s events. The Mayor then unveiled a plaque celebrating 50 years of The Abingdon Fire Station on Ock Street. At 12:00 there were Group photos. There were many present, former, and possibly future colleagues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409","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=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}