Near one end of the Ock Valley Walk a primitive construction has been put together by some school boys.

While at the Drayton Road end these three story dwellings, on the site of the Crossroads Garage, have just had the rafters added.

Looking upstream from Wilsham Road, Saint Helen’s church steeple has all but disappeared above the wharf.

Along this line of Horse Chestnut trees, near Caldecott Rec, is where the old canal once ran.

This new book has recently appeared in shop windows. Its a sequel to Abingd0n Past and Present, contrasting more past and present scenes.

The second picture shows more copies of the book in the Bookstore window.

A new Abingdon shop blog has just appeared called ‘Retro Sweets in Abingdon.’ The shop ‘Sweets Chocolate’ bring tastes from the past into the present. They have just introduced a sweet from 1898 – uncle joes mint balls

And shown here from their main website is a selection called ‘School Days’.

Just 9 days to go,

and somebody has already begun stacking the shelves.