There is an Open Day at Abingdon Rowing Club Saturday 23rd August 2014 from 10am – 1pm. During this open day you will be shown the basic movements on a rowing machine inside the brand new gym extension and then you can have a quick paddle in one of the larger boats to see what it’s all about.
The picture is from a previous open day in 2009.
On Saturday, Abingdon Vale Cricket Club 1st Team played Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts. As often happens during the summer months the far side of the pitch was being used by a visiting caravan club, who added to the spectators.
Oxford were bowled out for 136, and Abingdon hit 137 for 4 wickets – a win that helps move them up the Cherwell League Division 2 Table. 
Today The Abingdon Vale Sunday Team played against a musicians team created by Richard Thompson. This match has been played on the Sunday before the Cropredy Festival for the last twelve years, and was instigated by Pam Aird who was there helping out at the pavilion.
Richard Thompson was in Scotland so could not be with us this year.
This must be a warm-up before the big game against Cropredy Village next weekend.
The Abingdon Bowling Club celebrated the centenary of their first ever match on Saturday 21st June 2014. Thanks to Gordon for the the original announcement and the picture of the successful replay in progress.
It was announced earlier this month that GLL, a large company that runs leisure facilities in many places in London, and round the country, including South Oxfordshire, has won the ten year contract to run leisure facilities on behalf of the Vale of White Horse District Council and South Oxfordshire from September 1st 2014.
GLL began life as Greenwich Leisure Limited in 1992, and merged with Nexus Community Leisure in 2011, and will now run over 120 facilities. So they are big.
That means that the 2 facilities in Abingdon: The Vale of White Horse Leisure Centre, currently run by Active Nation,
and the Outdoor Pool, currently run by SOLL, will come under the control of GLL.
(Management of Tilsley Park, Abingdon’s other facility, was previously taken over by Abingdon School.)
District Councils are increasingly in the business of managing contracts with specialist companies on behalf of council tax payers, rather than running services themselves. The new contract could be good news to Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council who currently subsidise the open air pool to the tune of over £40K a year.
Anyway, good to see that the outdoor pool was a good temperature yesterday.