West St Helen Street will be closed for highway repairs on 22nd July (08:00 – 17:00). The flow at the Iron Bridge from St Helen’s Wharf will be reversed. The diversion is via Drayton Road and Ock Street. There will be no access to West St Helen Street car park
East St Helen Street will be closed for highway repairs on 28th July. The diversion is via Ock Street and Drayton Road.
The Charity Quiz Night for the NSPCC on 31st July. (cancelled = see comments)
A traffic survey is happening in Abingdon town centre with cables attached to boxes across the road. They won’t detect a 2 HP cart that drove through Abingdon from Cardiff to London – part of a charity drive. See https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/shirehorses2022.
Daniel was in town and made a video showing the horses having a much-needed drink of water https://youtu.be/2lVqn3UYnhU on their way to London
They then set off again on what was a hot day.
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On the Market Place today, a stall was selling cakes, plants and books for Christian Aid. Christian Aid week ran from 15th – 21st May. There was some door to door collections using paper envelopes. This year there is also the Abingdon e-envelope for online donations: https://envelope.christianaid.org.uk/envelope/abingdon-christian-aid
This morning the people of East St Helen Street were putting up their bunting for the Jubilee celebrations.
I am not sure we on West St Helen Street will be able to match them, but we will see. Two weeks to go.
There was a quilt exhibition last weekend at The Manor Prep School, raising funds for The Abingdon Bridge and Flexicare, and showing quilts made during Covid. There are still a couple of quilts showing in the window of Mostly Books.
There is often somebody in town to do with the Ukraine appeal. That war continues to devastate many ordinary Ukrainian people. 11 million people – over 1/4 of the population – have fled their homes since the conflict began.