{"id":1816,"date":"2010-10-19T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2010-10-19T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:01:40","slug":"abingdon-stondeth-by-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Halfway up the museum stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10101805.jpg\" alt=\"Musuem soon to close\" \/><br \/>\nAt the end of the month the County Hall museum will close for redevelopment. The staircase is not going to be altered, although in the early days the idea to sink a lift up the central shaft was suggested.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10101806.jpg\" alt=\"Musuem soon to close\" \/><br \/>\nThe staircase has been used in recent years to display a brief history of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10101808.jpg\" alt=\"Musuem soon to close\" \/><br \/>\nOne display says &#8216;Entrusted to mother earth&#8217; and tells of the collapse of Roman rule and the coming of the Saxons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10101811.jpg\" alt=\"Musuem soon to close\" \/><br \/>\nThen about half way up the stairs one reaches the Sessions hall where the main exhibition, reception desk, shop and coffee shop are currently to be found &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the month the County Hall museum will close for redevelopment. The staircase is not going to be altered, although in the early days the idea to sink a lift up the central shaft was suggested. The staircase has been used in recent years to display a brief history of Abingdon. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,83],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archictecture","category-heritage","tag-museum-county-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}