The Wisteria at the Crown and Thistle is having a second flowering. It flowered back in May.
The bar used to be known as the Stocks as it had some wooden punishment stocks outside. It is now known as The Wisteria Pub. Wisteria has been growing for a long in the Crown and Thistle courtyard and this is the first time I have noticed a second flowering in September.
On Saturday 21st September Abbey Meadow Lacemakers (AML) held their annual Lacemakers day. Over 60 lacemakers from around Oxfordshire met together to make lace and celebrate their 25th anniversary.
In these days of mass production, there are still practitioners of skilled crafts and people who want to learn them.
The founder members, Gaby Lloyd and Elsie Wood cut the anniversary cake.
Abbey Meadow Lacemakers practice all needlecrafts as well as lacemaking and are always happy to see new members. They meet monthly on every 3rd Tuesday at Preston Road Community Centre. Details of their meetings and contact details can be found at www.abbeymeadowlacemakers.co.uk .
Helen has organised a litter pick at the weekend at Reynolds Way and Gainsborough Green.
This is what a Gainsborough picture looks like when spoiled with litter.
Here is one by Joshua Reynolds.
There were five Heritage Walks setting of from Abingdon Market Place at 11 am on Sunday.
* Abingdon’s Boundary Walk
* The Rivers of Abingdon
* Heritage Art about Abingdon
* Abingdon’s Industrial Past
* Abingdon’s Blue Plaques
The rain began at 11 am at the same time as the walks. The rain was sometimes heavy and lasted for about two hours. But despite that about sixty people took part.
This was the first time for the blue plaques walk which covered four blue plaques:
Arthur Preston (historian and politician at Park Cresent),
John Alder (generous lottery winner at Stert Street),
Cecil Kimber (MG manager at The Boundary House),
and Daniel Turner (Baptist Minister and hymn writer at 35 Ock Street).
In the British Heart Foundation charity shop all the umbrellas in the store-area were brought down to sell to anybody who needed one.
At the temporary community shop the exhibition had over 600 visitors on Saturday. We all love studying the aerial photographs from 100 years ago to see what has changed and get into discussion with strangers.
Sunday was quieter with about 100 visitors. At the end the railway club put their banner in the window to attract people to their upcoming exhibition at Abingdon College.