{"id":25945,"date":"2020-09-04T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25945"},"modified":"2020-09-04T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:53:13","slug":"coxeter-house-front-back-and-back-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25945","title":{"rendered":"Coxeter House &#8211; front and back view and a little history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coxeters was founded in 1836 by Charles Coxeter who was an ironmonger, also selling furniture, bicycles and other household items. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020090401.jpg\" alt=\"Coxeters\" \/><br \/>\nThe 1970 Abingdon Whos&#8217; Who and Directory has an advert for Coxeters &#8211; Abingdon&#8217;s Departmental Store. The blue building was new then. They wanted local people to &#8216;<em>TRY ABINGDON FIRST&#8217;<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020090403.jpg\" alt=\"Coxeters\" \/><br \/>\nHere is the same view today with the Results gym upstairs, and the kitchen showroom and workwear outlet downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The sign now says Coxeter House and has done since 1984. Coxeters let this large blue building, and the other buildings around the car park at Tannery Court, to a variety of businesses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020090402.jpg\" alt=\"Coxeters\" \/><br \/>\nThe businesses at Coxeter House change and the sign writers are kept busy moving signs at the back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coxeters was founded in 1836 by Charles Coxeter who was an ironmonger, also selling furniture, bicycles and other household items. The 1970 Abingdon Whos&#8217; Who and Directory has an advert for Coxeters &#8211; Abingdon&#8217;s Departmental Store. The blue building was new then. They wanted local people to &#8216;TRY ABINGDON FIRST&#8217;. Here is the same view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25945","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=25945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}