Additional fortification has been added to the Upper Reaches Hotel to stop trespassers. There is no predicted date for when any real work will happen to use this land.
Repairs to Abingdon Bridge are now predicted for about October. The Jubilee flags are still flying as is the Ukrainian Flag from 24th August – Ukrainian Independence Day.
The Post Box Topper on Abingdon Market Place has a nautical look. Secret Crocheters Post Box-Toppers have raised £1,279 for charities before this one. Donations for this topper will go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital via https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/secret-crocheter4.
Under Abingdon Bridge, a Salters Steamer called ‘Goring’ steamed away to Oxford this Bank Holiday morning.
In Abingdon this afternoon, the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were dancing outside the Punchbowl.
On Saturday, there was a Balloon and Fireworks Festival at Abingdon Airfield.
On Sunday, there was J-Fest 22 (the music festival accessible to all – not far from Abingdon).
A new shop opened in Bury Street this week. A local company have vaporiser shops in Abingdon and Witney and online shopping from Kingstone Bagpuize. The company’s previous shop in Stert Street closed because the premises needed remedial work.
The new shop has a minimalist look. Products are in a display case in the centre of the shop, with lots of space to vape.
The signs came down today at Andrews Estate Agents in Abingdon. The branch in the High Street has now closed.
This is what the branch looked like in 2022 and inset in 2006.
They were at 9 Bath Street from 1963 until they moved to High Street, probably about twenty years ago.
We bought and sold our first house through their Bath Street branch, and their salesmen used to say that the business was unique. The founder, Cecil Jackson Cole, set up the company in 1946 to fund three charitable trusts by selling houses.
I have not seen any notifications about moving to another Abingdon address.