{"id":5798,"date":"2012-02-09T23:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2012-02-09T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:20:58","slug":"fore-street-and-back-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5798","title":{"rendered":"Concerning our exaggerated gables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020904.jpg\" alt=\"Back Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe History of Abingdon by James Townsend was published in 1910 and the final chapter STREETS AND HOUSES describes East and West St Helen&#8217;s Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020914.jpg\" alt=\"Back Street\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;<em> &#8230; East and West St. Helen&#8217;s Streets with their exaggerated gables retain something of their mediaeval aspect. &#8216;Westseynteleynstret&#8217; appears in 1375, &#8216;Seynteeleynstret&#8217; in 1404, and &#8216;Estseyntelynstrete&#8217; in 1405 in the Account-rolls.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020913.jpg\" alt=\"Back Street\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fore Street and Back Street are names still in use for East and West St. Helen&#8217;s respectively.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A hundred years after Townsend&#8217;s book, the overnight snow might give the streets back a more mediaeval aspect if it were not for the cars, street lamps, and pavement barriers. The houses in both streets still retain their exaggerated gables &#8211; even some of the modern ones &#8211; like ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History of Abingdon by James Townsend was published in 1910 and the final chapter STREETS AND HOUSES describes East and West St Helen&#8217;s Street. &#8220; &#8230; East and West St. Helen&#8217;s Streets with their exaggerated gables retain something of their mediaeval aspect. &#8216;Westseynteleynstret&#8217; appears in 1375, &#8216;Seynteeleynstret&#8217; in 1404, and &#8216;Estseyntelynstrete&#8217; in 1405 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","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=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}