{"id":14775,"date":"2015-09-05T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2015-09-05T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:06:07","slug":"victorian-abingdon-exhibition-at-community-free-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14775","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Abingdon Exhibition at Community Free Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15090502.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Abingdon Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Community Free Space (previously known as the Community Shop), in Bury Street, there is a picture exhibition about Victorian Abingdon. It will be open for a week.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15090501.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Abingdon Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nAs always people are fascinated to look at old photographs of Abingdon, and this time there is also a large scale map of Abingdon in Victorian times. The displays were created by Elizabeth Drury who co-authored the Abingdon Past and Present books.<\/p>\n<p>Also instrumental was Hester, who arranged the rota of volunteers and did the admin.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15090506.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Abingdon Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile, a group of cyclists came through town today, on their way from Didcot, on a 100-mile &nbsp;ride, raising money for good causes. Causes were: Prostate Cancer UK, Helen and Douglas House, and the Oxford Centre for Enablement at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon Boat Racing tomorrow &#8211; one of the biggest events in the Abingdon Calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Community Free Space (previously known as the Community Shop), in Bury Street, there is a picture exhibition about Victorian Abingdon. It will be open for a week. As always people are fascinated to look at old photographs of Abingdon, and this time there is also a large scale map of Abingdon in Victorian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","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=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}