{"id":12483,"date":"2014-10-07T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2014-10-07T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:22:38","slug":"blue-plaque-for-cecil-kimber-one-for-arthur-preston-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12483","title":{"rendered":"Blue Plaque for Cecil Kimber. One for Arthur Preston on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100701.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Plaque\" \/><br \/>\nA Blue Plaque was unveiled at the Boundary House Pub last Saturday for Cecil Kimber, the creator of the MG Marque.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100703.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Plaque\" \/><br \/>\nThe Boundary House has been a pub for the last 25 or 30 years but before that it was a family home &#8211; built for Mr Cyril Viney, who  lived there for many years, before and after Cecil Kimber&#8217;s residence.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100702.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Plaque\" \/><br \/>\nThere are now two plaques for Cecil Kimber who lived there from 1933-38. As far as I can tell Mr Viney was the proprietor there from 1927-33, and 1938-58.<\/p>\n<p>The other Blue Plaque will be for Mr Arthur Preston, a great Abingdon Politician and Historian, who was active around 100 years ago. Trying to arrange his Blue Plaque has been more problematic and has been under consideration for almost ten years. The best location still needs to be decided. One place that could work would be Preston Road &#8211; the Abingdon road named after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blue Plaque was unveiled at the Boundary House Pub last Saturday for Cecil Kimber, the creator of the MG Marque. The Boundary House has been a pub for the last 25 or 30 years but before that it was a family home &#8211; built for Mr Cyril Viney, who lived there for many years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","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=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}