{"id":25919,"date":"2020-08-29T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25919"},"modified":"2020-08-29T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:14:31","slug":"high-street-signs-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25919","title":{"rendered":"High Street Signs in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia <em>High Street<\/em> is the most common street name in the UK. It beats Station Road and Main Street by a long way.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082901.jpg\" alt=\"High Street\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon has a High Street. Looking today I saw three High Street signs. The first, near the Market Place, was from the days when Abingdon was a borough &#8211; before the local government reorganisation in 1974.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082902.jpg\" alt=\"High Street\" \/><br \/>\nThat end of the High Street is mostly banks and estate agencies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082906.jpg\" alt=\"High Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe next sign, at the junction of West St Helen Street, has T over a dot. Did this look good in the days when shorthand was in vogue?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082910.jpg\" alt=\"High Street\" \/><br \/>\nAt the other end the High Street sign is black with smudgy white lettering.<\/p>\n<p>The Vale of White Horse District Council has been in existence, making Abingdon&#8217;s street signs, since 1974. They have stamped their logo on signs for many other roads around Abingdon but have left the old signs on the historic High Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082909.jpg\" alt=\"High Street\" \/><br \/>\nAt the other end of the High Street are mostly pubs. The Grapes has a sign offering the government scheme of <em>Eat Out to Help Out<\/em>. Over the road The Narrows has a door with the sign <em>Exit Only<\/em>. It is part of their one way system to stop the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia High Street is the most common street name in the UK. It beats Station Road and Main Street by a long way. Abingdon has a High Street. Looking today I saw three High Street signs. The first, near the Market Place, was from the days when Abingdon was a borough &#8211; before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","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=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}