{"id":26547,"date":"2021-01-07T19:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26547"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:41:27","slug":"st-helens-wharf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26547","title":{"rendered":"St Helen&#8217;s Wharf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010707.jpg\" alt=\"St Helen's Wharf\" \/><br \/>\nLast night stars were bright and there was frost on car windscreens.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010719.jpg\" alt=\"St Helen's Wharf\" \/><br \/>\nThis morning a mist had formed, and we went for an walk in South Abingdon &#8211; starting at St Helen&#8217;s Wharf.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010716.jpg\" alt=\"St Helen's Wharf\" \/><br \/>\nThe waterside promenade at the wharf was created in 1884 after Christ&#8217;s Hospital demolished the Anchor Inn and the Almshouse Over the Water. Replacements were built on the other side of the road. I learnt that, and more, when making a video about the almshouses and St Helen&#8217;s Wharf last summer, with Jackie Smith.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the video then here is a new version &#8211; without music. The music was a bit distracting, but I thought at the time it would add atmosphere.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7SOy9Hk2-8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night stars were bright and there was frost on car windscreens. This morning a mist had formed, and we went for an walk in South Abingdon &#8211; starting at St Helen&#8217;s Wharf. The waterside promenade at the wharf was created in 1884 after Christ&#8217;s Hospital demolished the Anchor Inn and the Almshouse Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}