{"id":33695,"date":"2025-05-07T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33695"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:20:15","slug":"abingdon-prepares-for-ve-day-80th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33695","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Prepares for VE Day 80th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTomorrow, Abingdon will commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day with displays and events in the town.<\/p>\n

The Abingdon Bridge charity, based in the old Police Station, has Union Jack bunting and flags round its blue door. Its window reads \u201cVE 80,\u201d
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\nLocal shopfronts have also joined in. Helen & Douglas House, the Oxford-based children\u2019s hospice charity, features mannequins dressed in red, white, and blue, accompanied by Union Jack flags.
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\nAcacia, as always, has a colourful themed window display.
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\nAt The Shed, a Union Jack-themed window display includes cushions and teasets and a union jack fire guard.
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\nIn Bath Street, the two Masons have dressed their shopfronts in creative red white and blue fabrics, wools and ribbons. Both with the theme \u201cVE Day 1945\u20132025.\u201d Mason in Stert Street also has a good display.
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\nAt the centre of the commemorations, the Royal British Legion club has silhouettes of soldiers, giant poppies, and a large Union Jack, paying tribute to those who served from 1939 to 1945.<\/p>\n

This is just a small sample. Abingdon is ready to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow, Abingdon will commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day with displays and events in the town. The Abingdon Bridge charity, based in the old Police Station, has Union Jack bunting and flags round its blue door. Its window reads \u201cVE 80,\u201d Local shopfronts have also joined in. Helen & Douglas House, the Oxford-based children\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695","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=33695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}