{"id":25131,"date":"2006-06-10T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/06\/10\/before-the-bun-throwing\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T12:04:00","slug":"before-the-bun-throwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25131","title":{"rendered":"Before the bun throwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061001.jpg\" \/><br \/>This house in Saxton Road is geared up for Englands first world cup match against Paraguay this afternoon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061002.jpg\" \/><br \/>This mum is taking her three children, complete with flags, into Abingdon, on this sunny morning.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061003.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here are visitors from some of the twin towns, gathering for the start of a conducted tour around the Abbey, and down to St Helens Church.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061004.jpg\" \/><br \/>At the bottom of West St Helens Street, next to the church, were a display of MG cars. Inside the church there was an MG motor club exhibition.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061005.jpg\" \/><br \/>Also on display in the church are the new bells. A lot of the money for the bells was left fifty years ago by Edgar Humphrey. The large bell enscription read &#8220;Edgar Humphrey 1870 -1856 By whose benificence this ring of bells was installed in the Church of St Helens. Praise Him upon the loud cymbal&#8221;. On the back of the bell Rev Michael Goode&#8217;s name is moulded.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061006.jpg\" \/><br \/>In the Market Place, the Schongau band (one of Abingdon&#8217;s twin towns ) played.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061007.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Flag throwers from St Niklaas (a Vale twin town) also performed twice. The green flag is Abingdon&#8217;s.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061008.jpg\" \/><br \/>The road to Dorchester had to be closed for a couple of hours because of a serious accident down that way.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061009.jpg\" \/><br \/>Copies of the new book &#8220;Cameos of Abingdon&#8221; were on sale for \u00a38-50. And there were 450 copies of a facsimile copy of the Town Charter for sale for \u00a34-50 to celbrate Abingdon&#8217;s 450th charter year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This house in Saxton Road is geared up for Englands first world cup match against Paraguay this afternoon.This mum is taking her three children, complete with flags, into Abingdon, on this sunny morning.Here are visitors from some of the twin towns, gathering for the start of a conducted tour around the Abbey, and down to [&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-25131","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\/25131","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=25131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}