{"id":15222,"date":"2015-11-23T23:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15222"},"modified":"2015-11-23T23:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:19:56","slug":"fresh-fish-from-grimsby-to-abingdon-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15222","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Fish from Grimsby to Abingdon Monday Market via the A34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112304.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Monday Market\" \/><br \/>\nBradley Taylor must have an early start bringing fresh fish from Grimsby to the Monday Market in Abingdon<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112305.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Monday Market\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic may have been running ok near Abingdon, but he tweeted ahead from Peartree, where there had been a collision, <i>&#8220;Plenty of variety on board this morning, currently stuck on the A34, hopefully will arrive in Abingdon soon.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112301.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Monday Market\" \/><br \/>\nI see in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/berks\/vol4\/pp430-451\">British Online History of Berkshire<\/a> that The Monday Market in Abingdon has a long history, and was run by the Abbey from at least 1328. <\/p>\n<p>The 1556 charter granted the Monday market to the newly established Abingdon corporation. A table of fees for stalls in 1557 shows   <i>linen-drapers and woollen-drapers, tanners, ironmongers and smiths, ropers and &#8216;colle-makers&#8217;<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Nowadays market traders bring: fish from Grimsby, olives, bread and cakes, fruit and veg, clothes, carpets, and bags,  batteries and watch straps, Hoover Bags &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112303.jpg\" alt=\"Medieval Monday Market\" \/><br \/>\na pop up toy shop, pottery, picture frames, dairy and meat products, eggs and pet supplies, cards and stationary, outdoor plants etc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Taylor must have an early start bringing fresh fish from Grimsby to the Monday Market in Abingdon Traffic may have been running ok near Abingdon, but he tweeted ahead from Peartree, where there had been a collision, &#8220;Plenty of variety on board this morning, currently stuck on the A34, hopefully will arrive in Abingdon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222","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=15222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}