One of Abingdon’s guitar shops – Fine Guitars – is to close. They sell fine guitars, ukuleles, accessories, and music for all instruments.
That still leaves one guitar shop in Abingdon: Remade Guitars, at Coxeter House, not only sell guitars, but also repair, customise, and modify guitars.
Everything looks set for the opening of the Wildwood Kitchen on Bury Street. Over the coming weekend there will be a ‘soft opening’ with a limited number of customers to ensure everything is working properly.
Then on Monday they will be opening properly.
When the Kings Head and Bell had a revamp last year, the bell shaped sign – with a picture of King Charles I – could not be rehung, as the hanger was broken. There were some complaints when it was replaced with a sign with just writing.
A picture of King Charles I has been re-instated, but without the bell.
In June 2015 Abingdon Business Park was sold by Standard Life to Rockspring.
The site has now been re-branded, and Rockspring with their joint venture partner, XLB Property, are undertaking a major regeneration of the park, refurbishing empty properties to increase occupancy.
Before it became Abingdon Business Park in the 1980s, the MG Factory was on this site, and a few of the original factory buildings have been reclad to form the units along Colwell Drive – what was the MG mechanical repair shop in B-Block now houses UKMail, a major competitor to Royal Mail.