{"id":20235,"date":"2018-03-25T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T08:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20235"},"modified":"2018-03-25T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T08:11:28","slug":"specsavers-abingdon-est-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20235","title":{"rendered":"Specsavers Abingdon &#8211; Est 1993."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032501.jpg\" alt=\"Specsavers\" \/><br \/>\nSpecsavers have been celebrating 25 years in Bury Street at the weekend and have been giving out cake and goody bags. They moved from next to Greggs to the premises previously used by Halfords a few years ago. This gave them two floors and more space for opticians, hearing tests, and dispensing.<\/p>\n<p>Other businesses that I think have been in Bury Street for 25, or more, years include:<br \/>\nNew Look (moved)<br \/>\nBaker Oven (now Greggs)<br \/>\nLunn Poly Travel (now Tui)<br \/>\nMister Minit (now Timspon)<br \/>\nSupadrug (moved)<br \/>\nAbbey National (now Sandander)<br \/>\nCancer Research Campaign<br \/>\nH Samuel<br \/>\nDorothy Perkins<br \/>\nBoots (The Chemists)<br \/>\nPrecinct Dental Practise<br \/>\nThe Gift Centre (moved and now Abingdon Gallery )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specsavers have been celebrating 25 years in Bury Street at the weekend and have been giving out cake and goody bags. They moved from next to Greggs to the premises previously used by Halfords a few years ago. This gave them two floors and more space for opticians, hearing tests, and dispensing. Other businesses that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bury-street","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235","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=20235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}