{"id":17441,"date":"2016-11-05T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2016-11-05T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T23:02:11","slug":"oxfam-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17441","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jo for this &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16110303.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfam\" \/><br \/>\nOxfam will be celebrating their 30th (Pearl!) Anniversary at the current premises in Stert Street later this month.  Looking back at the history of Oxfam\u2019s \u2018Odyssey\u2019 in Abingdon (there have been 3 bases in the past 47 years). <\/p>\n<p>1969 &#8211; High Street \u2013 an old branch of Boots the Chemist<br \/>\n1971 &#8211; 19 Stert Street &#8211; previously a butcher<br \/>\n1986 &#8211; 30-32 Stert Street. Beforehand it had been The Extraordinary trading Company,  and originally Langford\u2019s Coal and Corn Merchants (as the great signage above the shop fa\u00e7ade  shows).<\/p>\n<p>They would like memories either of Oxfam in Abingdon or their premises. Pictured is Roger Baker who has been with the shop since 1969, and 2 other &#8216;Pearl&#8217; volunteers who have been with the shop for 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jo for this &#8230; Oxfam will be celebrating their 30th (Pearl!) Anniversary at the current premises in Stert Street later this month. Looking back at the history of Oxfam\u2019s \u2018Odyssey\u2019 in Abingdon (there have been 3 bases in the past 47 years). 1969 &#8211; High Street \u2013 an old branch of Boots the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","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=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}