{"id":4970,"date":"2011-10-27T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2011-10-27T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T20:02:58","slug":"the-link-between-hathaways-and-goffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4970","title":{"rendered":"The link between Hathaways and Goffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11102604.jpg\" alt=\"From Hathaways to Goffs\" \/><br \/>\nThis Blog reported 4 years ago that Hathaways had closed, and back in April showed scaffolding going up round the old baccy shop. Hathaways was the shop on the High Street that sold smoking paraphernalia and souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the interior, the back and the roof have been rebuilt and the scaffolding removed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11102606.jpg\" alt=\"From Hathaways to Goffs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little bit of Hathaways still lives on in another shop in Abingdon. The walking sticks, and tobacco pipes were taken over by E R Goffs after Hathaways closed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11102605.jpg\" alt=\"From Hathaways to Goffs\" \/><br \/>\nThere are also a range of \u00a0bubble pipes and colourful baccy tins.\u00a0As well as its core newsagency business Goffs tries to fill gaps in the Abingdon market in an enterprising way. For example, they are also a Western Union agency for people who need to send money abroad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11102607.jpg\" alt=\"From Hathaways to Goffs\" \/><br \/>\nMrs Goff still owns the freehold, and visited recently for the first time in a while, and was shown a display of \u00a0improvements since the current lease holders took over. It is part of the lease conditions, I believe, that the name Goff stays above the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Blog reported 4 years ago that Hathaways had closed, and back in April showed scaffolding going up round the old baccy shop. Hathaways was the shop on the High Street that sold smoking paraphernalia and souvenirs. Since then the interior, the back and the roof have been rebuilt and the scaffolding removed. A little [&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-4970","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\/4970","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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}