{"id":23212,"date":"2019-09-20T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23212"},"modified":"2019-09-20T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:35:07","slug":"join-the-homecoming-parade-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23212","title":{"rendered":"Join the Homecoming Parade and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092002.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming Parade\" \/><br \/>\nFor the last week the ex-Superdrug-Store has had an exhibition that featured a film made in 1919, of the Abingdon homecoming, when huge crowds welcomed the soldiers and sailors home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092006.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming Parade\" \/><br \/>\nBoards have helped us understand a bit more about what it was like in 1919. The sea of hats is one point of note. On Saturday 21st the film will be shown at 11:00 am at the Abbey Cinema together with a short documentary examining the film. Then at noon there will be a parade with people in period costume, led by the Abbey Brass Band, marching along Bury Street to the Market Place.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of Heritage Open Days. There will also be open properties to look round for free.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092008.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming Parade\" \/><br \/>\nIn the Roysse Room the Abingdon Flower Club presents a 60th Anniversary Flower Festival &#8211; Fashion in Flowers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092001.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming Parade\" \/><br \/>\nBack at the ex-Superdrug Store, the Abingdon Branch model railway can be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of open properties and events is at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonheritage.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.abingdonheritage.org.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I should add that the Merchants House in East St Helen Street is only open on Saturday ( not Saturday and Sunday ).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092005.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming Parade\" \/><br \/>\nAnd if you have time alongside all the heritage activities there are plenty of shops in the town centre, and a litter pick starting at the lock from 10 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week the ex-Superdrug-Store has had an exhibition that featured a film made in 1919, of the Abingdon homecoming, when huge crowds welcomed the soldiers and sailors home. Boards have helped us understand a bit more about what it was like in 1919. The sea of hats is one point of note. On [&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-23212","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\/23212","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=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}