{"id":17320,"date":"2016-10-16T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2016-10-16T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:29:25","slug":"runaway-fair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17320","title":{"rendered":"The Abingdon &#8220;Runaway&#8221; Fair &#8211; a little history thanks to the Reading Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/runawayfair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"football teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101605.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThese days, children&#8217;s rides are the main feature of the Runaway Fair that runs on the Monday of the week after the Michaelmas Fair.<\/p>\n<p>In days of old the Michaelmas and Runaway fairs were both hiring fairs. As late as 1884 the Reading Mercury noted there was still some hiring activity at the Abingdon Runaway Fair.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101610.jpg\" alt=\"Runaway Fair\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1888, the same paper reported that during the &#8220;runaway&#8221; fair a 71 year old man from Ock Street was killed by a runaway driver.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101606.jpg\" alt=\"Runaway Fair\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We read in the same paper in 1897  that little hiring was noticeable, but country people came into town for Michaelmas purchases, and for a fair on the Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101608.jpg\" alt=\"Runaway Fair\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, children&#8217;s rides are the main feature of the Runaway Fair that runs on the Monday of the week after the Michaelmas Fair. In days of old the Michaelmas and Runaway fairs were both hiring fairs. As late as 1884 the Reading Mercury noted there was still some hiring activity at the Abingdon Runaway [&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-17320","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\/17320","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=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}