{"id":17884,"date":"2017-01-11T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17884"},"modified":"2017-01-11T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:47:31","slug":"abingdon-ghost-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17884","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Ghost Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Captain Chaos for these Abingdon Ghost Signs, and background information.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011101.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Signs\" \/><br \/>\nThe first sign is the old Hygienic Laundry on the corner of Wilsham Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011102.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Signs\" \/><br \/>\nSecond is on the side of the house to the right of the entrance of Sydenham&#8217;s (ex Fred Knights), on Ock Street, and says &#8216;H Giles the builder&#8217;. At one time this house was a small shop run by Dick and Dolly, relatives of the Fitchetts who operated a Rag &#038; Bone yard just across the road. The yard has gone, replaced by houses aptly named Fitchett yard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011103.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Signs\" \/><br \/>\nThe third is Brake Bros, seed and corn merchants. They operated in the yard at the back of the chip shop (once Dick Reeves) in an old garage that was once a coach company.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011104.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Signs\" \/><br \/>\nThe fourth is clear to see. Edward street was famous as the only street in the world where there was day and night at the same time. Day&#8217;s the Baker at one end and Knights D.I.Y at the other.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17011105.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Signs\" \/><br \/>\nFinally, the wording is badly faded but from memory it depicted the businesses of: P.L Barrett the undertaker, Pollards the plumbers, and E H Enoch&#8217;s  coal merchants? It&#8217;s on the corner of Conduit road and Ock St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Captain Chaos for these Abingdon Ghost Signs, and background information. The first sign is the old Hygienic Laundry on the corner of Wilsham Road. Second is on the side of the house to the right of the entrance of Sydenham&#8217;s (ex Fred Knights), on Ock Street, and says &#8216;H Giles the builder&#8217;. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884","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=17884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}