{"id":33752,"date":"2025-05-20T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33752"},"modified":"2025-05-20T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:25:33","slug":"preston-road-community-centre-marks-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33752","title":{"rendered":"Preston Road Community Centre Marks 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPreston Road Community Centre has its 50th anniversary this month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052007.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe building is owned by the Vale of White Horse District Council but leased and run for the community by a charity. The original building (including a large main hall, kitchen and bar, storage rooms, lavatories, and an office) was completed in May 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1975, the entrance has changed, and moveable partitions have been added, allowing the large hall to be reconfigured into a medium hall, small hall, and lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Many community groups have used the centre over the years, but bingo has been a constant &#8211; originally run by Abingdon Boys Football Club and now run by volunteers from the centre.\u00a0 This evening, bingo players played an extra free game to celebrate the anniversary. It had a prize of \u00a350.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the players were still very young in 1975. Some were not even born. <\/p>\n<p>Someone remembered when Doug Lee was the chairman at Preston Road Community Centre and how the Abingdon pub darts final was played there when there was a bar. The old bar space is used now for storage by the South Abingdon Food Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston Road Community Centre has its 50th anniversary this month. The building is owned by the Vale of White Horse District Council but leased and run for the community by a charity. The original building (including a large main hall, kitchen and bar, storage rooms, lavatories, and an office) was completed in May 1975. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752","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=33752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}