Category Archives: community groups

ABCD Four Lions

ABCD Film Society
Thankyou to Mike Bloom for this ‘exciting snap‘ of committee members Noeleen Farrell & Martin Johnson preparing to introduce the first film in the 2010/2011 ABCD Film Society program … The film was Four Lions …
ABCD Film Society
‘Four Lions is a darkly comic tale of a group of inept Jihadi suicide bombers … with the potential to cause shock, incongruity, belly laughs, … and offence.’

For full information about the other 20+ films in the ABCD program go to www.abfilms.org.uk .

A lot more to save than Radley Lakes…

Friends of Radley Lakes
The Save Radley Lakes campaign may well be over. But here is Jo Cartmell – one of the protestors – with a few of her pictures of water voles.

Water Voles are, according to Jo’s twitter account,  ‘the UK’s fastest declining mammal… Do not mow river/stream banks!  Allow them to forage and hide!‘
Friends of Radley Lakes
There is a photographic exhibition by the Save Friends of Radley Lakes at the Abingdon Community Shop. It is a chance to help the Friends develop the lake,  and also a reminder that there is a lot more to save than Radley Lakes.

History comes alive in the Community Shop

Community Shop -  History Groups

This week, and next, Abingdon’s history societies have taken over the community shop. Most of the displays are done by the multi-talented Abingdon Area Archaeological and History Society (AAaHS).
Community Shop - Natural History Groups

There are also some displays by the Friends of Abingdon, and an unnamed group of us who organise Heritage Open Day.

But the biggest draw has to be the large aerial photographs of Abingdon in days gone by. It is amazing the details people remember looking down on the route they once took to school. It makes history come alive.