{"id":277,"date":"2009-07-27T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/07\/27\/her-majestys-swan-uppers-become-boat-uppers\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:02:00","slug":"her-majestys-swan-uppers-become-boat-uppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Her Majesty&#8217;s Swan Uppers Become Boat Uppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for these pictures. Michael gave us the pictures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/2009\/05\/age-of-stupid.html\">A Plague of Caterpillars <\/a>. He has another good one here.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/28070901.jpg\" \/><br \/>Not quite Abingdon but they were on their way there. These are pictures of Her Majesty&#8217;s Swan Uppers on the final leg of their journey up the Thames to Abingdon on Friday afternoon (24th).<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/28070902.jpg\" \/><br \/>When they arrived at Culham Lock it had a mechanical failure and the gates could not be opened.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/28070903.jpg\" \/><br \/>Comments heard from the boatmen included: &#8220;<em>They couldn&#8217;t have invented this in a million years<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>I do this every year but I&#8217;ve never been here before<\/em>&#8220;.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/28070904.jpg\" \/><br \/>They had to take their boats round the old course of the River Thames and haul them up beside a weir at Sutton Courtenay to the upper channel level.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/28070905.jpg\" \/><br \/>This now explains why, when they did arrive at Abingdon Bridge to toast the queen, they were using make-believe glasses.<\/p>\n<p>( You may be able to see me in this picture. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for these pictures. Michael gave us the pictures of A Plague of Caterpillars . He has another good one here.Not quite Abingdon but they were on their way there. These are pictures of Her Majesty&#8217;s Swan Uppers on the final leg of their journey up the Thames to Abingdon on Friday afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}