{"id":22953,"date":"2019-08-04T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T21:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22953"},"modified":"2019-08-04T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T21:12:59","slug":"do-you-live-in-a-cowley-concrete-house-or-did-you-work-at-cowley-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22953","title":{"rendered":"Do you live in a Cowley Concrete house or did you work at Cowley Concrete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080401.jpg\" alt=\"Cowley Concrete\" \/><br \/>\nIn 1966 you could have had a house built in three weeks using components from the Cowley Concrete Abingdon plant. Cowley Concrete was once an important company in Abingdon, located down the Radley Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080402.jpg\" alt=\"Cowley Concrete\" \/><br \/>\nDo you live in a street like this made from Cowley Concrete? If so Elizabeth would like to hear from you. In Abingdon Library, she has put together a display of some of the buildings and flyovers made from the Cowley Concrete Abingdon plant.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080403.jpg\" alt=\"Cowley Concrete\" \/><br \/>\nThat includes the garage in Botley. Elizabeth is also interested in hearing from former employees at the plant to find out what it was like working there. If you can help, visit the display at the library and leave your contact details.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080404.jpg\" alt=\"Cowley Concrete\" \/><br \/>\nThis afternoon I took this picture of a bridge made at the Cowley Concrete plant in Abingdon. The bridge opened a large recreational area to the people of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080405.jpg\" alt=\"Cowley Concrete\" \/><br \/>\nIt was given to the town by H.G. Mullard, former Mayor and Freeman of Abingdon , and Mrs E M Mullard, Justice of the Peace, <em>&#8216;In appreciation of a happy life spent in Abingdon.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1966 you could have had a house built in three weeks using components from the Cowley Concrete Abingdon plant. Cowley Concrete was once an important company in Abingdon, located down the Radley Road. Do you live in a street like this made from Cowley Concrete? If so Elizabeth would like to hear from you. [&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-22953","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\/22953","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=22953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}