Avalon is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. Avalon House is now a business address in Abingdon
Argos was a hundred-eyed giant in Greek mythology. Argos is now a well known store in Abingdon.
Businesses with names from legend and mythology have come to Abingdon.
Abingdon has been around since the Iron Age and has a few legends and myths of its own.
It was my wife’s birthday and after a meal near Oxford we went on a birthday walk beside the River Thames in Abingdon. St Helen’s Wharf was busy with birds after a boat stopped to feed them.
We walked over the bridge and along the causeway towards Culham.
Then we walked back along by the River Thames. There were huge mounds of wild Michaelmas Daisies beside the River, and out on the River oarsmen from Abingdon School were rowing by Abingdon Marina.
As we got near town my wife took this picture of The Old Anchor Inn.
I took one of the tall almshouse chimneys, looking like spaghetti in the River.
She took one of Abingdon Bridge.
The meal was at the Trout Inn. My wife is reading La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman, where the Trout Inn features extensively. She says there are also mentions of Abingdon – there could be a future blog post about The Book of Dust – Abingdon.
Trevor sent me this picture of an object in a field and says “Saw this today. It’s in the field behind the Morland Gardens development. Can’t be can it??”
The Morland Gardens development now shows as ‘Sold Out!’ on The Taylor Wimpey website. Work was nearing completion last time I visited.
Work continues on the Guildhall inside and out, and has been through the summer.
In recent days a specialist stone mason has started working on the front of St Nicolas Church where some of the detail on the old arches has been eroded and broken off by the weather. The stone mason has matched up the stone to replace some of the detail that has fallen off.
There is a secure scaffold round the NatWest Bank. The eroded pillars had been protected by white boards before this work started.