On the Market Place was acoustic music from various local singers and groups, put on by “The Legendary Skittle Alley“. This is Glenda Huish, and Leigh Alexander.

Skittle Alley also have concerts in Abingdon on June 7th at 2PM in the Unicorn Theatre, and 7.30 PM at the Stocks Bar (Crown and Thistle).

Also taking place was the Abingdon Free Wi-Fi Launch + balloon race. You can pick up the Wi-Fi along the precinct, along High Street, and in the Abbey Meadows. More riverside locations to be added soon.

Using the free town centre and riverside Wi-Fi, provided by CTS, I ran a Caption Competition. The Caption was ‘What I love about Abingdon is…”

Most captions are on a specially created loveabingdon.blogspot.com – to be judged by the Mayor. A few got put here. Including one from Pam, featured on this blog recently dueting with Julie Felix .

The roof is on, the cladding is complete, and the windows are in.
On Sunday 8th June West St Helen Street will be partly closed until 11:30 to allow removal of the crane.

Residents got a letter saying ‘Kingerlee would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and also thank you for your co-operation.’

Personally, I don’t think they’ll be able to get the crane out through that hole.

A lot of water under the bridge and a lot of traffic across it…

Here are the Bridge Street traffic lights before unveiling in December 2006.

Here is the same place after the lights were dismantled in May 2008.

That sign has now passed into history. I hope it will find a fitting place at Standlake (Oxfordshire’s museum storage depot) and be kept for an appropriate moment to be dusted off and displayed within the museum.

Here is the Abingdon Town Crier being interviewed for a Channel 5 program about living in Abingdon. I heard him say ‘I enjoy living in Abingdon because…‘

Look in at Radio Abingdon for more details.