{"id":7080,"date":"2012-08-11T00:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2012-08-11T00:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:06:28","slug":"nags-head-refurbishment-begins-steamer-re-routed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"Nag&#8217;s Head Refurbishment Begins \/ Salter Steamer Landing Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081001.jpg\" alt=\"Nags Head Refurbishment Begins\" \/><br \/>\nAs you enter Abingdon, the news board outside Goffs tells you &#8230; &#8220;<em>Riverside Pub set to reopen doors.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081008.jpg\" alt=\"Nags Head Refurbishment Begins\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday Spike sent me this picture from the river saying &#8220;<em>Renovation going well and it&#8217;s fantastic to see all the metal shutters gone and life back into this historic Abingdon pub. Forecast to open mid September.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081004.jpg\" alt=\"Nags Head Refurbishment Begins\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the work, the landing stage for Salters Steamers has had to be moved to the Upper Reaches Hotel. This may be just until the landing area is made safe.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081002.jpg\" alt=\"Nags Head Refurbishment Begins\" \/><br \/>\nOn a warm summer&#8217;s day like today there were quite a few people swimming in the river, some out in the middle, who did not see the Salter&#8217;s Steamer to Oxford until very late.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081009.jpg\" alt=\"Nags Head Refurbishment Begins\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the strongest arguments put forward for keeping the open air pool, just a short distance from this shot, was that it would protect against drownings in the river.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you enter Abingdon, the news board outside Goffs tells you &#8230; &#8220;Riverside Pub set to reopen doors.&#8221; Yesterday Spike sent me this picture from the river saying &#8220;Renovation going well and it&#8217;s fantastic to see all the metal shutters gone and life back into this historic Abingdon pub. Forecast to open mid September.&#8221; During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pubs","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","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=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}