{"id":5625,"date":"2012-01-18T17:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2012-01-18T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:38:04","slug":"the-old-mayors-house-from-back-to-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"The Old Mayor&#8217;s House &#8211; from back to front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12011801.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Mayor's House\" \/><br \/>\nI often pass these flats and read the two large address plates on the back saying that this is &#8220;The Old Mayor&#8217;s House&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today I read about that building in Historic Abingdon, Fifty-six articles\u00a0by Agnes C \u00a0Baker. On the 18th April 1952 she wrote \u00a0&#8220;<em>The house breakers are at work in Abingdon &#8230; at No 9, High Street &#8230; workmen hurl down masonry &#8230; just as close on 400 years ago the house was build.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Number 9, The High Street, was once the house of Richard Mayott, the first Mayor of Abingdon &#8211; \u00a01556. He was also Mayor 1568-69, and for the third time in 1578, during which time he died. <\/p>\n<p>Miss Baker writes that elaborate carving have been discovered on the back of\u00a0one stone fireplace, and says that people conjecture that the stone is from Abingdon Abbey.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12011802.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Mayor's House\" \/><br \/>\nBack then the building was being rebuilt to provide better premises for the Co-operative Society.<\/p>\n<p>That same shop is currently To Let.\u00a0Two letting agents seem to be involved &#8211; one of whose sign fell down at the end of November, and is still to be seen in a heap on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often pass these flats and read the two large address plates on the back saying that this is &#8220;The Old Mayor&#8217;s House&#8221;. Today I read about that building in Historic Abingdon, Fifty-six articles\u00a0by Agnes C \u00a0Baker. On the 18th April 1952 she wrote \u00a0&#8220;The house breakers are at work in Abingdon &#8230; at No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}