{"id":8710,"date":"2013-04-27T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2013-04-27T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T20:11:27","slug":"if-you-had-a-wish-which-shop-would-you-bring-back-to-the-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"If you had a wish which shop would you bring back to the precinct?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been reminded of buying our first cooker, around 1986, at the Gas Showroom, here is a fuller list of shops in Bury Street Precinct from about that time. Four are unchanged, and remarkably they are all now neighbours, and are pictured below as they look today. <\/p>\n

If you were granted a wish to bring back one shop from the list (or from any other time), which would it be?<\/p>\n

1\/2 Columbian Cafe and Restaurant
\n3 Pic a Card
\n4 Radio Rentals
\n5 Adams Childswear
\n7 Parslows of Reading (Bakers)
\n8 Savory and Moore (Chemist)
\n9 Currys Ltd (Electrical)
\n10 Sketchley (Cleaners)
\n11 Dewhurst (Butchers)
\n12 K Shoes
\n13 Wigfalls Television
\n14 Frend & Co Limited (Jewellers)
\n15 Qualifruit
\n16 Halfords (Cycles \/ Motor Accesories)
\n17 H L Textiles
\n18 British Gas (Southern)
\n19 John Lane Ltd
\n21 Mister Mint
\n22 F W Woolworth & Co Ltd
\n23 Gateway Foodstore Ltd
\n24 Times Furnishing Ltd
\n25 H Samuel (Jeweller)
\n\"Long
\n26 Clays (Butchers & Greengrocery)
\n26a Dorothy Perkins (Female Clothes)
\n\"Long
\n27\/28 Boots (The Chemist)
\n\"Long
\n29 The Gift Centre
\n\"Long
\n30 Centre News
\n32 Foster Bros Clothing Co Ltd (Male)
\n33 Focus Shoes
\n34 Lemon Plaice
\n35 Oxonian Travel Service
\n36 Abbey National Building Society
\n37 Mr Candy
\n37 Swiss Chalet
\n37 Gerrards Ltd (Greengrocers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having been reminded of buying our first cooker, around 1986, at the Gas Showroom, here is a fuller list of shops in Bury Street Precinct from about that time. Four are unchanged, and remarkably they are all now neighbours, and are pictured below as they look today. If you were granted a wish to bring […]<\/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-8710","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\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}