{"id":25072,"date":"2006-04-22T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/04\/22\/ock-mill\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:19:00","slug":"ock-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25072","title":{"rendered":"Ock Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042202.jpg\" \/><br \/>Somebody has been playing alphabetic games with the Ock Mill sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the Travel Inn behind the wall. It was built a couple of years ago. And now we have the new nursing home next to that (previous blog). There is also a brand new planning application (application 06\/00343\/FUL) between the nursing home and the Motorcycle Centre for Four storey residential development of one &#038; two bedroom and studio flats with parking for twelve cars. It is for the same development company as brought us the nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>Up until about fifteen years ago, the Ock Mill lay derelict. Alongside, were uncared for fields which locals assumed were flood plain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042203.jpg\" \/><br \/>But the Beefeater chain bought up the Mill, refurbished it, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1990s, The Ock Mill was popular with young familes because the portions were large, and there were very reasonably priced Mr Men Meals for the children &#8211; including an activity pack with crayons and badges and puzzle sheets. Then a few years ago, the management went up market. They renamed themselves &#8220;Out and Out&#8221;, and introduced smaller more sophisticated portions.<\/p>\n<p>Now its back to being a proper Beefeater Restaurant again with larger portions. However, there is not so much room for a bouncy castle in the back garden anymore since the Travel Inn was built round the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody has been playing alphabetic games with the Ock Mill sign&#8230; You can see the Travel Inn behind the wall. It was built a couple of years ago. And now we have the new nursing home next to that (previous blog). There is also a brand new planning application (application 06\/00343\/FUL) between the nursing home [&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-25072","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\/25072","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=25072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}