{"id":26669,"date":"2021-01-23T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26669"},"modified":"2021-01-23T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T22:18:47","slug":"albert-park-at-sunset-remembering-albert-and-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26669","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park at Sunset &#8211; remembering Albert and Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012311.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park at Sunset\" \/><br \/>\nI went out for a walk round Albert Park. The light from the setting sun caught Prince Albert above it all. There were people out for walks, and families playing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012308.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park at Sunset\" \/><br \/>\nOne of Abingdon&#8217;s greatest monuments is of a German Prince, admired and taken to heart by Victorian Abingdonians. They shared with Queen Victoria&#8217;s grief and created a civic memorial. <\/p>\n<p>Prince Albert died at the age of 42. He had become known as a reformer in causes such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide. He was instrumental in the the Great Exhibition of 1851. The statue was finished in 1865.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012304.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park at Sunset\" \/><br \/>\nFacing Prince Albert is the Church of St Michael and All Angels Church &#8211; finished in 1867.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012301.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park at Sunset\" \/><br \/>\nTrinity Church, nearby, was finished in 1875.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012302.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Park at Sunset\" \/><br \/>\nIn Victorian days smoke rose from chimneys. The chimneys in Park Road are memorials to the age of coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out for a walk round Albert Park. The light from the setting sun caught Prince Albert above it all. There were people out for walks, and families playing. One of Abingdon&#8217;s greatest monuments is of a German Prince, admired and taken to heart by Victorian Abingdonians. They shared with Queen Victoria&#8217;s grief and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26669","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\/26669","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=26669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}