{"id":30252,"date":"2023-01-24T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30252"},"modified":"2023-01-24T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:38:18","slug":"town-flag-at-half-mast-today-for-the-passing-of-a-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30252","title":{"rendered":"Town flag at half mast today for the passing of a Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312403.jpg\" alt=\"Flag flying half mast\"\/><br \/>\nThe flag is flying at half mast at the County Hall museum for Peter Spooner, an ex-Mayor of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312406.jpg\" alt=\"Flag flying half mast\"\/><br \/>\nHe came to Abingdon with the RAF in the 1950s and made Abingdon his home. After leaving the service, he became an MG worker and then ran a newsagent and confectionary business with his wife at 129 Ock Street for 18 years until retirement. Those were the days when people popped into the newsagent for a paper and had a five-minute chat, so Peter must have known a lot about the town. <\/p>\n<p>He was elected as a town councillor from 1983 &#8211; 1989 for the Ock Ward and became the Mayor of Abingdon from 1987-88. <\/p>\n<p>He was often seen at town events and loved the town and its people. There is a blog picture of him on the Market Place in 2009 at <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=238\">https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=238<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312405.jpg\" alt=\"Flag flying half mast\"\/><br \/>\nHe also loved his garden and sent me these pictures in May 2012 to celebrate the Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the funeral are on the Town Council website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/news\/former-mayor-peter-spooner\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/news\/former-mayor-peter-spooner<\/a>. With condolences to Peter\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to The Abingdon Herald (May 28th 1987) for the second picture and some facts. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flag is flying at half mast at the County Hall museum for Peter Spooner, an ex-Mayor of Abingdon. He came to Abingdon with the RAF in the 1950s and made Abingdon his home. After leaving the service, he became an MG worker and then ran a newsagent and confectionary business with his wife at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252","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=30252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}