{"id":32343,"date":"2024-06-22T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T21:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32343"},"modified":"2024-06-22T22:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T21:31:31","slug":"election-of-the-mayor-of-ock-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32343","title":{"rendered":"Election of the Mayor of Ock Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062210.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday was Mayor\u2019s Day: the election of the Mayor of Ock Street, the leader of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers. So there was dancing throughout the day, and a procession between dancing locations behind the Horns.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062209.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe guest sides were the\u00a0 Windsor Morris and the Vale Islanders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062207.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Polling Station at the Brewery Tap opened at 11 am and closed at 4 pm. People living or working in Ock Street get a vote.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062208.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was dancing at the Black Swan; Abbey Gateway; Market Place; Broad Face; Long Alley Almshouses; and Brewery Cottages, Coopers Lane where Pam and Alick served the teams and other visitors with beer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062205.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe previous Mayors of Ock Street, Roger Cox and Harry Knight did not stand this year, and so there were three younger candidates, none of whom had been Mayor before. The winner was Rob Charlton. Rob has been lead dancer and so the Morris Men now have an active dancer as\u00a0 Mayor. The sword and cup of office was presented by the Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Gabby Barody.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062204.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRob then sat in the chair of office<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand was paraded up and down Ock Street as is the custom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024062201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was then further dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Mayor\u2019s Day: the election of the Mayor of Ock Street, the leader of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers. So there was dancing throughout the day, and a procession between dancing locations behind the Horns. The guest sides were the\u00a0 Windsor Morris and the Vale Islanders. The Polling Station at the Brewery Tap opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343","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=32343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}