{"id":27647,"date":"2021-07-31T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27647"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:03:15","slug":"abingdon-abbey-buildings-re-open-local-excellence-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27647","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Abbey Buildings re-open + Local Excellence Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073101.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nBryan and Tim were letting people know that the Abbey Buildings have reopened and had a special open day. <\/p>\n<p>Bryan has been working hard on the lottery bid to improve access to the Abbey Buildings. The Town Council have given a grant of \u00a325k towards the project. <\/p>\n<p>Tim has been curator for 4 years and is returning to the USA next week. There is an interview with him in the video at the end of this post. Also in the video are Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, and Oxford Waites.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073114.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers started under the County Hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073119.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nThey then made their way to the Abbey Buildings like Pied Pipers, leading the crowds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073124.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nIn the garden at the Abbey Buildings was a beer tent and a cake stall. There was free ice cream for children.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073135.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nHere are Bryan Brown, chairman of trustees of the Abbey Buildings Trust; Cheryl Briggs, The Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames; and the Town Crier.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073136.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nMembers of the Studio Theatre Club were near the Unicorn Theatre where they will be performing Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Murder In Ankh-morpork from 17th-20th November. (16th November 2021 marks 50 years of Terry as a published author.) Tickets go on sale on 14th September. They will go as fast as tickets to the Truck Festival.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073141.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nPerforming in the Long Gallery were the Oxford Waites.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073131.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Markey Place was the first Local Excellence Market since legal Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073133.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nThe Love Beer brewery, from nearby Milton, had a stall for the first time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021073139.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Abbey Buildings Reopen\" \/><br \/>\nMartin Wackenier also had a\u00a0 stall and sold over 20 of his 2022 Abingdon-on-Thames Calendars. Martin has just won the award for best photographer in Bucks and Oxfordshire in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2021. Other Abingdon winners were The Tipsy Mercer (for best Bar), and Mostly Books (for best Bookshop). 3 winners is better than any other place.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abbey Buildings reopen - Morris Dancing, Curator Interview, and Oxford Waites\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjG23GQ_MV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan and Tim were letting people know that the Abbey Buildings have reopened and had a special open day. Bryan has been working hard on the lottery bid to improve access to the Abbey Buildings. The Town Council have given a grant of \u00a325k towards the project. Tim has been curator for 4 years 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":[2,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-buildings","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","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=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}