{"id":23077,"date":"2019-08-26T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23077"},"modified":"2019-08-26T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:19:08","slug":"23077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23077","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082705.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine\" \/><br \/>\nThere were all kinds of boats on the River Thames in Abingdon this Bank Holiday Monday: some small, some big, some new,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082703.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine\" \/><br \/>\nsome old. Chaffinch, seen here passing through Abingdon Lock, was built in 1929.<\/p>\n<p>In my round up of events from Abingdon in August 1919 I did not mention that Mr A Baldwin, the Abingdon Lock keeper, received a silver cup from the Thames Conservancy for the prettiest flower garden and lock of the year .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082704.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine\" \/><br \/>\nHere is the flower garden this year &#8211; 2019. The house itself was built in 1928 according to the Thames Lock heritage board so Mr Baldwin lived elsewhere.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082401.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine\" \/><br \/>\nAnd here is a grainy B&#038;W picture of Mr Baldwin with his winning garden from the Oxford Journal Pictorial (all Rights Reserved). Imagine vibrant colours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were all kinds of boats on the River Thames in Abingdon this Bank Holiday Monday: some small, some big, some new, some old. Chaffinch, seen here passing through Abingdon Lock, was built in 1929. In my round up of events from Abingdon in August 1919 I did not mention that Mr A Baldwin, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077","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=23077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}