A revised demolition plan for the remainder of the Didcot A power station with the three remaining cooling towers and chimney has been cleared by RWE Npower and is now planned for summer 2019.

The demolition should have been completed a year ago, but something went wrong and the boiler house collapsed while it was being weakened for demolition. Four employees were killed. The view from the Margaret Brown Gardens in Abingdon looking down the River Thames still shows the chimney and part of the remaining towers in the summer of 2018.

They will still be visible from the south of Abingdon for another year.

A stone wall on Bath Street has been rebuilt in a set back position after the completion of the sixth form extension at Abingdon School.

The Nags Head has also got a new stone wharf wall where an old willow trunk caused damage to the previous river bank.

That work was done by Greenford Ltd who are also making a new stone wall along the river boundary of Coseners House.

We like our stone walls here in Abingdon.

The Morland Gardens development is about two thirds complete and looks very good. I have just been reading what Taylor Wimpey have to say about the development and our town …

Surrounded by trees and hedgerows, Morland Gardens is a new development located on the southern edge of the lovely market town of Abingdon.

For the weekly shop, you can choose from Waitrose or The Co-operative both within 1.5 miles from Drayton Road and other supermarkets a little further from home.

For all your retail therapy needs, visit The Orchard Centre and the Clarendon Centre, both less than 10 miles from your door.  There is a lovely selection of pubs and restaurants in the town.

The last third of Morland Gardens to be developed is adjacent to what was the southern edge of Abingdon.

This road could have been called The Rookery, but the road names chosen are King Street, Bowler Gardens, and Thomas Way. The link could be from the WW1 Abingdon Roll of Honour …

KING, Percival Arthur
THOMAS, Albert
BOWLER, Edward John

Unless anybody knows better.

Work has begun on the redevelopment of the former Saxton Arms pub. The development will see the former pub turned into 6 apartments. A previous plan to turn the former public house into a convenience store didn’t work out. I think the plan was withdrawn after people said they did not want another convenience store.