{"id":14970,"date":"2015-10-04T23:29:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2015-10-04T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:29:53","slug":"fair-set-up-and-fair-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14970","title":{"rendered":"Fair Set Up and Fair Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100403.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\nThe Michaelmas Fair in Abingdon was set up in the years following 1349 when Black Death swept the country. Laborers had become scarce and a new law was introduced to regulate wages &#8211; to be set at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100405.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\nIn Abingdon the annual hiring fair was held on the Monday following Michaelmas and has continued to this day. Its importance as a hiring fair has long since disappered.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a mile long Street Fair stretching from the Market Place to the end of Ock Street &#8211; held on the Monday, and Tuesday, before October 11th.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100401.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\n2015 is another year, and the Fun Fair was set up this Sunday morning with a lot of hard work and logistical experience.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100415.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\nIt is the first year that the new Mayott House, independent living scheme, on Ock Street, has experienced the Fair, and for three days it looks like Sunset Strip.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100421.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\nThere has been a religious service of sorts, at the start of the Michalemas Fair, for a very long time. Mr Woodford, Father and Son, have offered Woodford&#8217;s Golden Galloping Horses as a venue in the last few decades. <\/p>\n<p>There was a short service with hymns and a blessing took place this evening at the Galloping Horses. But for family reasons Mr Woodford could not be there and so Hebborns of Oxford helped out with their carousel.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15100418.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Set Up\" \/><br \/>\nThen everybody was given a free ride on the horses.<\/p>\n<p>The service used to be a chance for the town to show their appreciation to the show people. Back in the Abingdon Herald of 14th October 1882 it says <i>&#8220;The show people were regaled at the Liberal Hall with a substantial tea, to which over a hundred did justice, and after their bodily wants had been satisfied, addresses, interspersed with hymns, were given.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michaelmas Fair in Abingdon was set up in the years following 1349 when Black Death swept the country. Laborers had become scarce and a new law was introduced to regulate wages &#8211; to be set at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions. In Abingdon the annual hiring fair was held on the Monday following Michaelmas 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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","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=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}