{"id":31831,"date":"2024-01-30T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31831"},"modified":"2024-01-30T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:24:18","slug":"abingdon-librarys-windows-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31831","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Library&#8217;s Windows and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024012904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBuilt between 1973 and 1977, Abingdon library is part of The Charter, originally devised as the Broad Street North Redevelopment scheme, while Abingdon Borough was still in existence. (Abingdon\u2019s local authorities all changed in 1974). The Charter, when finished, was run jointly by Oxfordshire County Council and the new Vale of White Horse District Council. It housed the library, medical centre, doctor&#8217;s surgery, social services, pensioners&#8217; day centre, and a multi-storey car park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024012901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe charter has dark red bricks, a variety of grey slate roofs , walkways on different levels, and plantings of trees and bushes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024012902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe library also a view towards Poundland and Broad Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024012903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAnother window has a view towards the decorative wall that holds The Charter foundation stone (1973) and the official opening stone (1977). The wall looks like part of an old castle, possibly a reminder of 1556\u00a0 &#8211; the original Abingdon Borough Charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built between 1973 and 1977, Abingdon library is part of The Charter, originally devised as the Broad Street North Redevelopment scheme, while Abingdon Borough was still in existence. (Abingdon\u2019s local authorities all changed in 1974). The Charter, when finished, was run jointly by Oxfordshire County Council and the new Vale of White Horse District Council. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831","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=31831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}