{"id":20713,"date":"2018-06-16T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20713"},"modified":"2018-06-16T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T22:51:09","slug":"mayor-of-ock-street-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20713","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of Ock Street 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061721.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nLast Year, on the Day of the Election of the Mayor of Ock Street, an artist called Ben Edge (website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedge.co.uk\">www.benedge.co.uk<\/a>) was taking lots of pictures of the event. He has now produced a painting based on the Day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061705.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nLast year was very hot. This year was cooler.<\/p>\n<p>After dancing at locations along Ock Street and in the town centre, the Morris Dancers, and invited teams, rested for a much needed drink outside Pam&#8217;s House. Pam was supplying Free Beer to the Morris Dancers and their followers. In so doing Pam has inadvertently created the first Free House in Abingdon for many a long year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061707.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers then danced round Pam.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061712.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Pam&#8217;s Dance it was back to the Brewery Tap where the ballot box had been all day. A few more votes were cast by the dancers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061713.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nAt 4pm the ballot box was carried, coffin-high, to the back room of the&nbsp; Brewery Tap.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061714.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor&nbsp; of Abingdon and Town Clerk were there to ensure all votes were fairly counted.<\/p>\n<p>It was a close contest, and the Town Clerk asked that the votes were recounted to ensure there were no errors. Only 3 ballot papers had been spoiled this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061716.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe President of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, Ewart Hemmings, announced the result, and the Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Margaret Crick, presented the winner, MR HARRY KNIGHT, with the sash, the goblet, and the sword of office.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018061718.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street 2018\" \/><br \/>\nMr Knight was then carried in processions along Ock Street by the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.<\/p>\n<p>A short video follows for anybody curious how the procession appeared in 2018&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-COryuc6fEM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"460\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Year, on the Day of the Election of the Mayor of Ock Street, an artist called Ben Edge (website: www.benedge.co.uk) was taking lots of pictures of the event. He has now produced a painting based on the Day. Last year was very hot. This year was cooler. After dancing at locations along Ock Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713","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=20713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}