{"id":12460,"date":"2014-10-05T21:49:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2014-10-05T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:49:46","slug":"fairground-service-marks-the-start-of-abingdon-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12460","title":{"rendered":"Fairground Service marks the Start of Abingdon Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100506.jpg\" alt=\"Fairground Service\" \/><br \/>\nAs usual Abingdon Fair has been well publicised with posters in shops, and dayglo boards on numerous lamp posts all over Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100508.jpg\" alt=\"Fairground Service\" \/><br \/>\nThe road diversions were in place at about 9am and very soon after that stall holders were measuring out their pitches for stalls and setting up rides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100504.jpg\" alt=\"Fairground Service\" \/><br \/>\nBrian, pictured above, remembers going to the Fair as a 4 year old, which is about 60 years ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100501.jpg\" alt=\"Fairground Service\" \/><br \/>\nHe said there used to be huge crowds for the Fair Service at the Galloping Horses on Ock Street. In this picture taken in 1964, and shown in the North Berks Herald, there were an estimated 500 people. Rev. Graham West led the half hour service.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100512.jpg\" alt=\"Fairground Service\" \/><br \/>\n50 years later, the Galloping Horses and the Fairground Service are in the Market Place.  I&#8217;d estimate there were 120 people. Pastor Ed Evans, from the Abingdon Community Church led the half hour service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual Abingdon Fair has been well publicised with posters in shops, and dayglo boards on numerous lamp posts all over Abingdon. The road diversions were in place at about 9am and very soon after that stall holders were measuring out their pitches for stalls and setting up rides. Brian, pictured above, remembers going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","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=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}