{"id":12720,"date":"2014-11-08T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12720"},"modified":"2014-11-08T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:13:32","slug":"west-st-helen-street-unchanging-and-changeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12720","title":{"rendered":"The Eben Lark has Flown from West St Helen Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110804.jpg\" alt=\"West St Helen Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe Eben Lark has flown, having spent the summer here, and now the shop is To Let.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110801.jpg\" alt=\"West St Helen Street\" \/><br \/>\nHowever, some things in West St Helen&#8217;s Street never change: St Helen&#8217;s Church has been there as a focal point through the centuries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110806.jpg\" alt=\"West St Helen Street\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic is often unpredictable. I arrived back near home on Thursday evening and it took 15 minutes to do the last few yards. Traffic queues were merging from St Helen&#8217;s Wharf and East St Helen Street, and somebody said it had taken 2 hours to get from Harwell to Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110803.jpg\" alt=\"West St Helen Street\" \/><br \/>\nShelves are being cleared away from the Abingdon second hand CD and DVD shop.<\/p>\n<p>What was Frend &amp; Co has been repainted ready For Sale;  and the big banner saying new flats coming soon, where the solicitors offices used to be, has gone. Building work is almost complete &#8211; all part of the changing picture of West St Helen Street this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Hester sent me this picture to go wth her comment &#8220;Frend\u2019s Jewellers have moved to new premises next to Bella Napoli, near the Charter (where Tick-tock used to be till the owner retired recently).&#8221; &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110807.jpg\" alt=\"Frend and Co\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eben Lark has flown, having spent the summer here, and now the shop is To Let. However, some things in West St Helen&#8217;s Street never change: St Helen&#8217;s Church has been there as a focal point through the centuries. Traffic is often unpredictable. I arrived back near home on Thursday evening and it took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720","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=12720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}