{"id":3204,"date":"2011-04-10T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2011-04-10T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T08:39:36","slug":"seven-ages-of-britain-comes-to-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3204","title":{"rendered":"Seven Ages of Britain comes to Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sixth Age\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11040901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLast night on Channel 4 there were some good shots of Abingdon on a program called SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN .<\/p>\n<p>In the Sixth Age 1350 &#8211; 1530 AD: Bettany Hughes ended the program in Abingdon where she spoke about the building of Abingdon Bridge by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. The Fraternity of the Holy Cross (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fraternitatus siue gilde sancte crucis<\/span>) was abolished by Henvy VIII along with Abingdon Abbey. Most of the power of the Fraternity passed to Christ&#8217;s Hospital (a charity) in 1553. And Christ&#8217;s Hospital are still going strong with Almshouses in Abingdon. They may be the only remaining charity in Britain that run a park for the public good &#8211; that is Albert Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on Channel 4 there were some good shots of Abingdon on a program called SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN . In the Sixth Age 1350 &#8211; 1530 AD: Bettany Hughes ended the program in Abingdon where she spoke about the building of Abingdon Bridge by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. The Fraternity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}