{"id":14316,"date":"2015-06-15T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2015-06-15T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:54:08","slug":"arthur-preston-blue-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14316","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Preston Blue Plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Christine for letting me know about this event, and Elizabeth for the 2nd picture.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15061501.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Preston Blue Plaque\" \/><br \/>\nThe latest Oxfordshire Blue Plaque has been unveiled at a large house near the Albert Monument, on Park Crescent in Abingdon. It commemorates Arthur Edwin Preston (1852\u20131942) Mayor, antiquarian, and historian of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15061503.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Preston Blue Plaque\" \/><br \/>\nHis house is now owned and used by Abingdon School, and the plaque was unveiled on Friday by Jackie Smith, Honorary Archivist of Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, in the presence of The Mayor of Abingdon, the Master of Christ\u2019s Hospital, the Head of Abingdon School, the Chairman of the Vale, among others.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Arthur Preston made an extraordinary contribution both as a borough and county councillor and as an antiquarian who preserved the record of Abingdon\u2019s history and restored its ancient buildings &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordshireblueplaques.org.uk\/plaques\/preston.html\">read on here<\/a>)&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Christine for letting me know about this event, and Elizabeth for the 2nd picture. The latest Oxfordshire Blue Plaque has been unveiled at a large house near the Albert Monument, on Park Crescent in Abingdon. It commemorates Arthur Edwin Preston (1852\u20131942) Mayor, antiquarian, and historian of Abingdon. His house is now owned and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","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=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}