{"id":23327,"date":"2019-10-09T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23327"},"modified":"2019-10-09T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:11:21","slug":"re-opening-at-kings-head-and-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23327","title":{"rendered":"Re-opening at Kings Head and Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19100901.jpg\" alt=\"Re-opening at Kings Head and Bell\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kings Head and Bell re-opened this evening after being closed during the summer months.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19100902.jpg\" alt=\"Re-opening at Kings Head and Bell\" \/><br \/>\nThe pub had been refurbished and repainted and there was a new pub sign. The King&#8217;s head has been replaced with a Brewing Bell. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/history\/buildings\/kings-head-and-bell\">The Town Council History Portal<\/a>&nbsp;there was a pub here before 1554 called The Bell. In the eighteenth century the King\u2019s Head was first added to its name.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19100903.jpg\" alt=\"Re-opening at Kings Head and Bell\" \/><br \/>\nThe beer was good.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19100904.jpg\" alt=\"Re-opening at Kings Head and Bell\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor was there with the head of the pub chain for the opening.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pz0kc-wIdiE?rel=0\" width=\"450\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe major innovation from the refurbishment is enclosing a lot of the courtyard. The roof can be retracted &#8211; as happens at Wimbledon. One of the glass walls can also be opened. So on sunny days there is a courtyard, and in rain and winter there is a covered eating area near the revamped kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings Head and Bell re-opened this evening after being closed during the summer months. The pub had been refurbished and repainted and there was a new pub sign. The King&#8217;s head has been replaced with a Brewing Bell. According to&nbsp;The Town Council History Portal&nbsp;there was a pub here before 1554 called The Bell. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327","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=23327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}