{"id":211,"date":"2009-10-01T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/10\/01\/good-times-just-around-the-corner\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T23:46:00","slug":"good-times-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Good Times Just around the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09100105.jpg\" \/><br \/>Hester commented two days ago that there are signs of change in the Woolworth&#8217;s door &#8211; the one round the corner.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09100104.jpg\" \/><br \/>It is not so much the Street Fair poster &#8211; the best adverts for that are the yellow traffic signs on every approach into the town warning that the Street Fair is on from  <span style=\"visibility: visible;\"><span style=\"visibility: visible;\">Monday 5th October to Tuesday 6th &#8211;<\/span><\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09100103.jpg\" \/><br \/>No, the good news is this notice concerning a new Store Opening in Abingdon, presumably taking up some, but not all, of the vacant Woolworths Store. Cargo left Abingdon early last year to be replaced by Londis. But <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170209123128\/http:\/\/www.cargohomeshop.com\/\">Cargo Home Shop<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100901203357\/http:\/\/www.cargohomeshop.com:80\/Cargo_Abingdon\/default.aspx\">on their way back<\/a>. I believe that Scottish Widows bought up the vacant Woolworths premises from the receivers earlier in the year to add to the rest of the Abbey Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Small Print: Scottish Widows seem to be doing a good job. I only hope they are looking after their smaller &#8211; long standing tennants who have faithfully served the town through the bad times and ought to be there to profit from the good times just around the corner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hester commented two days ago that there are signs of change in the Woolworth&#8217;s door &#8211; the one round the corner.It is not so much the Street Fair poster &#8211; the best adverts for that are the yellow traffic signs on every approach into the town warning that the Street Fair is on from Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}