{"id":23231,"date":"2019-09-22T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23231"},"modified":"2019-09-22T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:42:37","slug":"five-walks-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23231","title":{"rendered":"Five walks in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092201.jpg\" alt=\"Five Walks in the rain\" \/><br \/>\nThere were five Heritage Walks setting of from Abingdon Market Place at 11 am on Sunday.<br \/>\n* Abingdon&#8217;s Boundary Walk<br \/>\n* The Rivers of Abingdon<br \/>\n* Heritage Art about Abingdon<br \/>\n* Abingdon&#8217;s Industrial Past<br \/>\n* Abingdon&#8217;s Blue Plaques<\/p>\n<p>The rain began at 11 am at the same time as the walks. The rain was sometimes heavy and lasted for about two hours. But despite that about sixty people took part. <\/p>\n<p>This was the first time for the blue plaques walk which covered four blue plaques:<br \/>\nArthur Preston (historian and politician at Park Cresent),<br \/>\nJohn Alder (generous lottery winner at Stert Street),<br \/>\nCecil Kimber (MG manager at The Boundary House),<br \/>\nand Daniel Turner (Baptist Minister and hymn writer at 35 Ock Street).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092203.jpg\" alt=\"Five Walks in the rain\" \/><br \/>\nIn the British Heart Foundation charity shop  all the umbrellas in the store-area were brought down to sell to anybody who needed one.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092204.jpg\" alt=\"Five Walks in the rain\" \/><br \/>\nAt the temporary community shop the exhibition had over 600 visitors on Saturday. We all love studying the aerial photographs from 100 years ago to see what has changed and get into discussion with strangers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19092202.jpg\" alt=\"Five Walks in the rain\" \/><br \/>\nSunday was quieter with about 100 visitors. At the end the railway club put their banner in the window to attract people to their upcoming exhibition at Abingdon College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were five Heritage Walks setting of from Abingdon Market Place at 11 am on Sunday. * Abingdon&#8217;s Boundary Walk * The Rivers of Abingdon * Heritage Art about Abingdon * Abingdon&#8217;s Industrial Past * Abingdon&#8217;s Blue Plaques The rain began at 11 am at the same time as the walks. The rain was sometimes [&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-23231","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\/23231","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=23231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}