{"id":33969,"date":"2025-07-11T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33969"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:01:56","slug":"w-h-smith-gets-new-alias-tg-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33969","title":{"rendered":"Alias Smith and Jones: W\u202fH\u202fSmith rebranded as TG Jones on Bury Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025071101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nW\u202fH\u202fSmith in Bury Street has now been rebranded as TG Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The name may have changed, but the shop continues to sell books, stationery, and cards. <\/p>\n<p>The W\u202fH\u202fSmith high street business was taken over by Modella Capital. On July 1st they began rebranding stores under the new name. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;TG Jones&#8217; has a similar look, with its blue background, two initials and traditional British surname. William Henry Smith was a real person. TG Jones is an alias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W\u202fH\u202fSmith in Bury Street has now been rebranded as TG Jones. The name may have changed, but the shop continues to sell books, stationery, and cards. The W\u202fH\u202fSmith high street business was taken over by Modella Capital. On July 1st they began rebranding stores under the new name. &#8216;TG Jones&#8217; has a similar look, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969","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=33969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}