Here is Touchwood Sports in 1975.
Here is Abingdon Sports in 2017.
It is still a stockist for the leading names in quality sports equipment. However, Yonex is now far more evident than Dunlops and Slazenger.
In 1975 if you got a tennis racket it would most likely be Dunlops or Slazenger. They supplied the rackets that helped Bjorn Borg win Wimbledon several times, but then got into financial problems and were brought up by Sports Direct as part of its rapid expansion in 2004.
Here is Mays Carpets in 1975 – the largest carpet showroom in Europe.
Here is the same part of the Fairacres Retail Park in 2017. The units were re-developed a few years ago. Mays are now the managers of the retail park.
There is still a Carpet shop ‘Carpet Right’, with BM the bargain store one side, and Dream Beds the other.
The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is today, August 6th, and the Abingdon Peace Group gathered, as they have done for many years now, for a 30-minute vigil at the War Memorial in Abingdon – at 8.15am this morning, the time the bomb was dropped.
They were joined by a man from Hiroshima, born their 42 years ago and now working at Harwell, who said it was very moving that people in Abingdon, so very far away, remember his home town in this way. That Hiroshima is a place where people work for peace and no more bombs, especially nuclear bombs.
Members of the Cowley Road Condors, a cycle club based in Oxford, cycled through Abingon this morning. Their ride took them to Helen and Douglas House charity shops in Oxford, Abingdon and Wallingford.
They left Abingdon with their pink and black cycle kit adorned with other clothes and fluffy toys. At each shop they bought something from the charity.
The Helen & Douglas House hospice cares for terminally ill children, young adults and their families. Their shops sell second hand items to raise money for the hospice.