{"id":27058,"date":"2021-04-08T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27058"},"modified":"2021-04-08T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:51:48","slug":"abingdon-riverside-changes-nearing-completion-in-spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27058","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon riverside changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWork on the Grotto at Cosenors House is nearing completion. The work is to bring it back to a safe and usable condition without changing it too much.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040803.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Lock has re-opened after a winter when the boat layby was being rebuilt. Hooks in the grass can be used as a temporary layby. Boats can now use the lock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040805.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe new layby is nearing completion.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040806.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the lock itself, crowd control barriers have been added to keep spectators away from people operating the lock &#8211; for the Covid-19 safety of everybody. <\/p>\n<p>To improve the look of the barriers, children are being asked to print, and colour in sections of a long Narrow Boat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040810.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe new boat house for the <a href=\"https:\/\/kingfishercanoeclub.co.uk\">Kingfisher Canoe Club<\/a> has been built and should soon be used, once Covid-19 guidelines allow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040808.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFor Covid-19 social distancing reasons, people wait if people are crossing the weir in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the Grotto at Cosenors House is nearing completion. The work is to bring it back to a safe and usable condition without changing it too much. Abingdon Lock has re-opened after a winter when the boat layby was being rebuilt. Hooks in the grass can be used as a temporary layby. Boats can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058","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=27058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}