{"id":2034,"date":"2018-07-13T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2018-07-13T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T17:07:04","slug":"avoncroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Avoncroft"},"content":{"rendered":"

We did a bit of cleaning this morning so as to impress Oliver\u2019s owners who arrive for an inspection tomorrow.\u00a0 <\/span>The Avoncroft museum which we planned to visit didn\u2019t open until 10:00 anyway.\u00a0 <\/span>So today\u2019s blog has nothing much to do with the canals.<\/p>\n

One of the first things we saw was a police box.\u00a0 <\/span>Younger readers may think it is a Tardis but no, it is a police box.\u00a0 <\/span>They were a bit frightening for many of the population when they were introduced.\u00a0 <\/span>If unmanned the door in the side could be opened and one could speak into the round grill and a policeman would then reply.\u00a0 <\/span>This was the height of technology at the time.<\/p>\n

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The Police Box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What? Talk to that?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then toured the grounds looking at the reconstructed buildings from several different eras.<\/p>\n

Pre-fabs were introduced after the war to meet the increasing need for new housing after so many properties had been destroyed.\u00a0 <\/span>There was big shortage of wood and the exterior was asbestos and the window frames metal.\u00a0 <\/span>They had a kitchen, sitting room, two bedrooms and the luxury of inside bathroom and toilet, small gardens and a coal shed.<\/p>\n

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Pre-fab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Well equipped kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The showman wagon, which cost \u00a31,000 in 1910 was drawn by a traction engine which cost \u00a33,500 so this was far from a poor man’s home.\u00a0 <\/span>It even had electric light supplied via batteries when most homes still had no electricity.<\/p>\n

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Luxurious living in the showman wagon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The town house dates from medieval times but has been modified later.\u00a0 <\/span>Romy found the warmest spot to sit by the fire with its enormous chimney.<\/p>\n

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Town House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A warm spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just close by she greatly admired the construction of the truck-framed barn dating from the 16 century.<\/p>\n

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Cruck-framed barn used for threshing when it was all done by hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a sandwich lunch we visited the local supermarkets and then headed back to Oliver to sit out the expected evening rain that has just started at 18:00.\u00a0 <\/span>It has has also become quite a lot cooler and there is a fresh breeze.<\/p>\n

We are looking forward to seeing our extended crew for tomorrow’s climb to the top of Tardebigge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We did a bit of cleaning this morning so as to impress Oliver\u2019s owners who arrive for an inspection tomorrow.\u00a0 The Avoncroft museum which we planned to visit didn\u2019t open until 10:00 anyway.\u00a0 So today\u2019s blog has nothing much to do with the canals. One of the first things we saw was a police box.\u00a0 … Continue reading Avoncroft<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avon-ring-2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-wO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}