The fair used to be set up on Sunday afternoon but nowadays it begins first thing Sunday Morning, and is almost complete by mid afternoon.

People walk the length of Ock Street to see what is on offer. Here are a couple of visitors from the Middle East with their Abingdon hosts. “Abingdon isn’t like this normally!!!”

Here are Private Blonde and friend in front of the Ask Restaurant.

The fair does mean there will be no traffic queues on Ock Street for a couple of days.

Crazy Croc helps enforce the car free street.

The fair is all smack bang in the middle of a residential street. Not all residents love it. Some move away for a couple of days.

Only one ride gets going on the setup day – Sunday, and thats the galloping horses after the Fair Blessing Service. Its the only ride that is ever for free.

Faulkner Photography have been kitting out the new studio on Lombard Street. This was once the Crystals shop, and for a short while the Acupunture Centre.

The footfall down this way will improve once the Co-op opposite opens.

That orange cone has been there since the time of the West Saint Helen Street Hole. Further down, near the ambulance car, there is a white square painted to say “we are aware” round another rickety pavement.

There was a lot of work patching the road in the aftermath of the Hole. But not yet the pavements.

Abingdon School has opened a new £9m sports hall today. This is the view of the development from Bath Street taken a couple of months ago.

The school website has the inside pictures. Martin Keown the ex Arsenal footballer was there to help open it.