{"id":27170,"date":"2021-05-03T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27170"},"modified":"2021-05-03T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:47:30","slug":"old-abbey-house-behind-the-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27170","title":{"rendered":"Old Abbey House &#8211; behind the boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21050304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOld Abbey House is boarded up as redevelopment starts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21050301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDaniel has been able to get a higher view over the fence showing the scaffolding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21050303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHe even has a view of the roof.<\/p>\n<p>For the history of Old Abbey House there is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/history\/buildings\/old-abbey-house\">Abingdon Buildings and People site<\/a>. A quick summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old Abbey House probably built by wealthy businessman James Smallbone about 1780<\/li>\n<li>Edwin Trendell, wine merchant, lived there from 1847 to 1900 and extended the house and developed the garden<\/li>\n<li>The Rt Revd James Leslie Randall, Bishop of Reading, lived there until 1920<\/li>\n<li>Abingdon Borough Council, Vale of White Horse District Council and Abingdon Town Council worked there from the 1920s until 2014<\/li>\n<li>From 2021\/2 it will become a hotel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more of Daniel&#8217;s aerial shots you can visit his facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danielgloverdrone\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danielgloverdrone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Abbey House is boarded up as redevelopment starts. Daniel has been able to get a higher view over the fence showing the scaffolding. He even has a view of the roof. For the history of Old Abbey House there is the Abingdon Buildings and People site. A quick summary: Old Abbey House probably built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170","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=27170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}