{"id":33050,"date":"2024-12-15T22:17:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33050"},"modified":"2024-12-15T22:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:17:19","slug":"a-walk-by-abingdon-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33050","title":{"rendered":"A walk by Abingdon Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These discoveries on the walk round by Abingdon Lock may be old news to some, but here they are anyway &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024121506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, November 27th, a narrowboat broke free and sank near Abingdon Lock. The vessel remains submerged against the weir wall, its hull held in place by the river current and ropes.<\/p>\n<p>The boat owner and their dog are safe. A large tree branch is entangled behind the boat as the river flows around and through it.<\/p>\n<p>I did hear that the lock keeper provided temporary shelter in the lock house until alternative arrangements could be made for the boat owner.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024121507.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn an update, the lock keeper has written on a board that insurance and recovery companies\u00a0 must wait for the river flow to subside significantly before removing the boat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024121510a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nApart from what must be a sad episode for the boat owner, there was a beautiful winter sunset this evening at the lock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024121511.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA second discovery on the walk was the opening of the new Sushi takeaway on Bridge Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These discoveries on the walk round by Abingdon Lock may be old news to some, but here they are anyway &#8230; On Wednesday, November 27th, a narrowboat broke free and sank near Abingdon Lock. The vessel remains submerged against the weir wall, its hull held in place by the river current and ropes. The boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33050","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=33050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}