{"id":29860,"date":"2022-11-01T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29860"},"modified":"2022-11-01T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:24:36","slug":"county-hall-abseil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29860","title":{"rendered":"County Hall abseil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022110101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon County Hall was taped off this afternoon as a worker abseiled about the outside.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022110102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA van, parked nearby, was the property of\u00a0 Chiltern Lifts Company. And so this could have been part of a survey to see about installing a lift, something the town council have started to investigate. Town council officers met recently with Historic England Planning and architects to consider three options for the lift. (But that is a complete guess.\u00a0Somebody out there may know better. Perhaps it was the Mayor&#8217;s Charity Abseil.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Actually, my guess was wrong.  The lift engineers were looking at the current lift and will be back once they have consulted with the manufacturers. It could be out of action for a while. The abseil was English Heritage workers repairing the balustrade and cupola. They also cleaned the windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon County Hall was taped off this afternoon as a worker abseiled about the outside. A van, parked nearby, was the property of\u00a0 Chiltern Lifts Company. And so this could have been part of a survey to see about installing a lift, something the town council have started to investigate. Town council officers met recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860","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=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}