The display team from the Abingdon Dog Training club were at Culham Fete on Saturday and gave obedience demonstrations in the main arena.
The Abingdon Dog Training club has been going since 1975, and meets on Sunday evenings at Preston Road Community Centre. They have puppy foundation courses, then basic obedience training, followed by bronze, silver and gold award classes.
At the Culham Fete last Saturday, the Save Culham Green Belt group had a stall.
South Oxfordshire District Council are looking where to put some more houses in their local plan, and are considering the new option of putting 3,500 on the Green Belt near Culham. It might even finance a bridge over the River Thames.
The red areas on their map shows areas of new housing. If the scheme did make it into the local plan then the development would dwarf those in North Abingdon. They told me that 3500 houses would mean 8,000 to 10,000 people and 2000+ cars. The Culham population was 453 in the 2011 Census.
The green circle bottom left is a small part of the new reservoir being proposed again. Thames Water did a presentation on the reservoir proposal at Trinity Church two weeks ago. Not a lot of people knew that or they would have gone. I was told there were as many people doing the presentation as in the audience.
As part of the 150 year anniversary celebrations at St Michael’s Church there has been an exhibition of art.
The exhibition displayed entries to an art competition on the theme: ‘Celebration’.
Proceeds will be donated to two charities; the Abingdon Bridge and Tariro – Hope For Youth: in Zimbabwe, and there were displays about their work in the church.
There were also refeshments, and items for sale including the 150th anniversary mugs picture above, and a book about 150 Years of St. Michaels called “As it was in the beginning, is now … and various bits in-between.“
Mr Hemmings Day of Dance has been moved to July 1st this year. The original date in May, nearest the birthday of Mr Tom Hemmings, is a very busy time for Morris Dancing.
Another innovation this year was a change to the constitution of Mr Hemmings Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers to allow female dancers.
They were joined by two guest teams this year. There were the Garston Gallopers, a mixed Morris dancing side based in East Garston in West Berkshire – on the other side of the the Ridgeway.
The third team, Ashnah, are American Tribal Style bellydancers from Abingdon.
The City Daily Photo’s theme for July 1st is Motion, which on Mr Hemmings Day of Dance took many forms, from the choreographed steps and gallops and handkerchief flicks of Morris Dancing, to the enigmatic hand ballet and twirling swirling costumes of Ashnah.
To see more examples of motion throughout the world, click here.