{"id":12779,"date":"2014-11-15T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2014-11-15T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T15:24:07","slug":"a-hole-opens-up-under-st-nicolas-churchyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12779","title":{"rendered":"A Hole Opens Up under St Nicolas Churchyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14111505.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Churchyard\" \/><br \/>\nSt Nicolas churchyard is currently having some long awaited work to make the path wheelchair accessible.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14111505.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Churchyard\" \/><br \/>\nBut the project was suddenly made more complicated by a large hole opening up under the digger. The workman was lucky to get out without injury. You might have expected the River Stert Culvert, or a burial chamber to be the cause of such a hole.<\/p>\n<p>The hole was actually an old coal cellar right next to the old chimney.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14111502.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Churchyard\" \/><br \/>\nBy the way, I recently found this picture in Waite&#8217;s Guide Book of Abingdon, from the early 1900s. It shows Waite&#8217;s Printing Works, at 1 Stert Street, neighbouring St Nicolas Churchyard,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14111504.jpg\" alt=\"St Nicolas Churchyard\" \/><br \/>\n-where the TSB now stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Nicolas churchyard is currently having some long awaited work to make the path wheelchair accessible. But the project was suddenly made more complicated by a large hole opening up under the digger. The workman was lucky to get out without injury. You might have expected the River Stert Culvert, or a burial chamber 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":[25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work","category-cemetery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","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=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}