{"id":26705,"date":"2021-01-29T22:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26705"},"modified":"2021-01-29T22:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:37:28","slug":"abolition-of-abingdon-gaol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26705","title":{"rendered":"Abolition of Abingdon Gaol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012906.jpg\" alt=\"Old Gaol\" \/><br \/>\nBerkshire County Court resolved at the Epiphany Sessions in 1859 that Abingdon Gaol had become unnecessary. The town council of Abingdon did not co-operate with the county in finding an alternative use for the goal. As a result the court resolved in 1862 that magistrates would commit no more county prisoners to Abingdon Gaol.<\/p>\n<p>The court also resolved to bring a Bill before Parliament to allow the county to close and sell Abingdon Gaol. The proceeds would help in funding the county militia or to bring down the county rate.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012905.jpg\" alt=\"Old Gaol\" \/><br \/>\nFrom that time, all county prisoners would be held at Reading and be tried at Reading. That included Oscar Wild who wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/ballad-reading-gaol\">The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1862 Abingdon Gaol has been used as tenements and a grain store, leisure centre, and living quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Picture of Abingdon &#8216;old&#8217; Gaol taken today. There is some flooding on the opposite bank but less than earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/viewer\/bl\/0000413\/18620412\/074\/0003\">British Newspaper Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire County Court resolved at the Epiphany Sessions in 1859 that Abingdon Gaol had become unnecessary. The town council of Abingdon did not co-operate with the county in finding an alternative use for the goal. As a result the court resolved in 1862 that magistrates would commit no more county prisoners to Abingdon Gaol. The [&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-26705","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\/26705","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=26705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}