{"id":33768,"date":"2025-05-22T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33768"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:42:00","slug":"old-free-library-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33768","title":{"rendered":"Old Free Library Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052201.jpg\" alt=\"Old Free Library Building\" \/><br \/>\nThe Free Library building has been hidden behind scaffolding for quite some time. Now the covers are off, revealing the mix of Victorian and Mock Tudor architecture. Features include large bay windows, steep gables, and a grand stone doorway. Above it, the plaque reads &#8216;FREE LIBRARY&#8217;\u00a0 It opened in 1895.<\/p>\n<p>At street level, the right-hand side is Crumbs Sandwich Bar &#8211; in bright orange. On the left, a sweet and vape shop briefly occupied the space last summer \u2014 still under scaffolding at the time. Now, a new barbershop has taken its place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025052202.jpg\" alt=\"Crumbs and Efes\" \/><br \/>\nOn the other side of Crumbs is Efes, Abingdon\u2019s first Turkish barbershop. (Crumbs is now in the middle of a barbershop sandwich.)<\/p>\n<p>Efes has also had a quick update in the last week and now features foldaway doors and a newly laid floor. &#8216;Efes&#8217; refers to the ancient city of Ephesus known from the bible. It is also a popular Turkish beer named after the ancient city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Library building has been hidden behind scaffolding for quite some time. Now the covers are off, revealing the mix of Victorian and Mock Tudor architecture. Features include large bay windows, steep gables, and a grand stone doorway. Above it, the plaque reads &#8216;FREE LIBRARY&#8217;\u00a0 It opened in 1895. At street level, the right-hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768","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=33768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}