Ruth Cross is seen here handing out leaflets to let people know about Abingdon Heritage Open Day – next Saturday.

Abingdon Concert Band were playing.

There were three different charity stalls. This one is raising money for a Community Centre in Brixton, South London.

And here are Ken Clarke who has never been Mayor of Abingdon as far as I know and Peter Spooner who was Mayor back in the 1980s.

And Muriel Fraser selling prints of original paintings, and photographs of Abingdon. All proceeds to charity. Let me know if I got anybodies name wrong. I’m hopeless with names.

Has anybody out there any more they can add to the history of the pub.

I did go inside to ask whether there were any interesting historical features I could photograph…

and was told the building was the real history.

Millets Farm Centre was once just a Pick Your Own Farm and has expanded to do many things.

All the way down the A34 Millets Farm Centre has these Brown Signs. They imply it is the tourist destination in these parts.

They direct you at this point away from Abingdon not towards Abingdon.

Thanks to John for the pictures and the question: How did a pick-your-own get in before our town?

This Abingdon shoe seller was last featured on this blog with a quote from Shakespeare’s MacBeth “twere well it were done quickly“…

Here is another…

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted shops
until their closing down…”