{"id":17068,"date":"2016-09-11T00:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17068"},"modified":"2016-09-11T00:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:43:54","slug":"abingdon-heritage-open-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17068","title":{"rendered":"Great turnout for Abingdon Heritage Open Day 2016 despite the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not raining when we got up at 6am, but there was a light rain when we went to pick up the gazebos, and it was raining hard by the time we put them up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091001.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Music Centre sang some medieval songs in the dry of the museum undercroft.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091003.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nHenry V gave a rousing speech in the rain<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091004.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nAbindon Bridge Beer was there on tap thanks to the Brewery Tap to celebrate 600 years since Abingdon Bridge, across the Thames, was built, in the reign of Henry V.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091005.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere were lots of medieval stalls on the Market Place. The most shocking, for any people born into the 20th and 21st Century, was the Apothecary and the treatment he gave his poor patient without any pain killers or basic hygiene. It drew a large crowd.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091008.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nConnells the Estate Agent had for sale, for one day only: Royal Armour(complete with sword), Fantasy castle (energy Rating G), and battle ship (in excellent working order with 6 cannons and 80 cannon balls).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091010.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Old Gaol Knights fought a tournament to win the public&#8217;s favour.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091011.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a face painter who gave Henry V his scar, and a number of adults pustules, but did much nicer designs for children.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091012.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nAt the end of the day there were a series of Bell Ringing demonstrations at St Nicolas Church. Over 500 churches are taking part in a bell ringing for Heritage Open Day nationally. There were 14 building open in Abingdon for Heritage Open Day which were dry.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a very successful Open Day at Culham Fusion Energy Centre despite the rain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16091013.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Heritage Open Day\" \/><br \/>\nWhen it was time to take down the gazebos at 4pm the rain had just about stopped, and any water that had gathered was removed from the sagging gazebo roofs.<\/p>\n<p>After that there was sunshine like the weather forecast predicted. More pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbingdonBlog\/photos\/?tab=album&#038;album_id=1177087282355826\">Abingdon Blog Facebook<\/a> and a movie with music, jousting, bell ringing, and Henry V&#8217;s speech on youtube &#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/969tuhWA4eU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not raining when we got up at 6am, but there was a light rain when we went to pick up the gazebos, and it was raining hard by the time we put them up. The Abingdon Music Centre sang some medieval songs in the dry of the museum undercroft. Henry V gave a [&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-17068","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\/17068","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=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}