{"id":24898,"date":"2007-12-29T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/12\/29\/town-centre-end-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T16:49:00","slug":"town-centre-end-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24898","title":{"rendered":"Town Centre &#8211; End 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/abingdon2007.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/abingdon2007s.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is the state of the town centre at the end of 2007 (press on image for a bigger version and if it that looks grainy press again the (+) magnifying glass).<\/p>\n<p>Red is a vacant shop premises that was occupied at the end of 2006.<br \/>Yellow means change of ownership.<br \/>Green is a shop that was vacant at the end of 2006 which is now occupied.<\/p>\n<p>High Street and the Bury Street shopping precinct have not had a good year. Other areas have done better.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07122805.jpg\" \/><br \/>Four shops have moved within the town: Frend &amp; Co the jeweller, moved to West St Helen Street for a lower rent. The Chinese Medical and skin centre also moved for a lower rent. Chancellors the Estate Agent moved to be nearer the other Estate Agents. Going Places moved in with Thomas Cook after their parent companies merged.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07122808.jpg\" \/><br \/>Patesserie Pascal is a new addition. Other new shops include Limoncello, the restaurant, Poldeli, the Polish deli, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080725052235\/http:\/\/www.efleathergoods.co.uk\/3.html\">Kelso<\/a>, a leather and craft shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the state of the town centre at the end of 2007 (press on image for a bigger version and if it that looks grainy press again the (+) magnifying glass). Red is a vacant shop premises that was occupied at the end of 2006.Yellow means change of ownership.Green is a shop that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898","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=24898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}