{"id":19034,"date":"2017-08-15T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19034"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:09:29","slug":"little-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19034","title":{"rendered":"Little Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Kaos 2 says &#8220;Having walked along East Saint Helens Street more times than I care to remember during my 60 plus years being a born and bred Abingdonian, I have to say the amount of little treasures that I come across never cease to amaze me. But you have to look up, as well as down.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17081504.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainKaos2\" \/><br \/>\nThere are at least three properties still displaying their Insurance plates. These would inform the fire brigade (in a time when their attendance was chargeable) that your property was insured and you would be able to cover their charges.<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming Heritage theme will focus on &#8220;Made in Abingdon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are&nbsp; two companies that have long since gone, both foundries making various iron &amp; steel products.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17081502.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainKaos2\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17081503.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainKaos2\" \/><br \/>\nHow many of you know the location of this? A clue is the Box tree growing through some railings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17081501.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainKaos2\" \/><br \/>\nAlso to add that Martin has designed a trail during Heritage Weekend looking for such treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Kaos 2 says &#8220;Having walked along East Saint Helens Street more times than I care to remember during my 60 plus years being a born and bred Abingdonian, I have to say the amount of little treasures that I come across never cease to amaze me. But you have to look up, as well [&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-19034","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\/19034","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=19034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}