{"id":2193,"date":"2010-12-08T20:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-12-08T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:50:55","slug":"greene-king-sells-abingdon-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Pubs For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10120916.jpg\" alt=\"Pubs Closing\" \/><br \/>\nOne thing is clear, The Fitzharris Arms has been already sold to Tesco, who plan to turn it into a Supermarket. The Herald had the &#8216;<em>Fury over Pub Sale to Tesco<\/em>&#8216; story this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10120904.jpg\" alt=\"Pubs Closing\" \/><br \/>\nThe Fitz was built in 1952 along with the surrounding houses. \u00a0So it serves a large area with no other nearby pubs. \u00a0Local people &#8211; many of them elderly &#8211; depend on their local pub for their social lives. \u00a0A social group of elderly residents meets every two weeks at the Fitz, and their Christmas Party was planned for the day the pub is to close.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10120918.jpg\" alt=\"Pubs Closing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also worth noting is that \u00a0Tesco own the One Stop supermarket just down the Wootton Road. \u00a0So are they planning to have two shops so close together? They did buy the Fox and Hounds pub on the Abingdon Road in Oxford and it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/8233253.Tesco_reveals_plans_for_Fox_and_Hounds_pub_site\/\">remained derelict since 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10120915.jpg\" alt=\"Pubs Closing\" \/><br \/>\nA For Sale sign has also appeared over another Greene King pub in the town centre: The Plough.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10120917.jpg\" alt=\"Pubs Closing\" \/><br \/>\nThe Plough re-opened in July after being closed from the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Those two pubs may be just the start. There are rumours of other Greene King pubs being sold off.<\/p>\n<p>(Greene King got a majority stake in the Abingdon based Morland Brewery, and all it&#8217;s pubs, in 1999. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing is clear, The Fitzharris Arms has been already sold to Tesco, who plan to turn it into a Supermarket. The Herald had the &#8216;Fury over Pub Sale to Tesco&#8216; story this morning. The Fitz was built in 1952 along with the surrounding houses. \u00a0So it serves a large area with no other nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}