{"id":1353,"date":"2009-09-07T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:31:55","slug":"he-also-does-stations-and-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/he-also-does-stations-and-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"He also does stations and memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqSmfjNSy2I\/AAAAAAAAA8c\/TI_BDeP0i48\/s1600-h\/clifton+hampden+bridge.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378606915944368994\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqSmfjNSy2I\/AAAAAAAAA8c\/TI_BDeP0i48\/s400\/clifton+hampden+bridge.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clifton_Hampden_Bridge\">Clifton Hampden bridge<\/a>, designed by Sir\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Gilbert_Scott\">George Gilbert Scott<\/a>: him as also did St Pancras, lots of churches, and memorials to the Martyrs (Oxford) and Albert (London). According to the guide book of walks around Oxfordshire, it replaced a ferry across the Thames and was privately commissioned by a local family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say, dear, who do we know who does a bit of building?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I completely agree that if a job is worth doing then it&#8217;s worth over-doing.<\/p>\n<p>The house at the end might be nice to live in, though I&#8217;m not sure I would enjoy having high water flood marks in my back garden. Even less would I enjoy people being able to look down into my back garden and say &#8220;oh look, you can see where the water comes up to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifton Hampden bridge, designed by Sir\u00a0George Gilbert Scott: him as also did St Pancras, lots of churches, and memorials to the Martyrs (Oxford) and Albert (London). According to the guide book of walks around Oxfordshire, it replaced a ferry across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/he-also-does-stations-and-memorials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,138],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-clifton-hampden","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}