Category Archives: charity

A deer and stagecoach seen in Abingdon

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Deer
Helen saw this deer as she came out of her house earlier in the week in the Northcourt area of Abingdon.

A little way behind the fence and ivy is the Boundary House Public House. The deer was startled and ran. Deer and modern traffic don’t mix well so I hope it got home OK.
Coach and 4
Deer were better suited to the lower speed days of the stagecoach. Elizabeth sent me this picture of a stagecoach passing down East St Helen Street earlier in the week (on the 11th during the Abingdon Street Fair detour).

Two horse-drawn stagecoaches set out on a 113-mile journey from Windsor Castle to Warwick this week and are currently at Kineton. They stayed at Henley, Dorchester-on-Thames, Stanton Harcourt, Hook Norton and Kineton on the way. Not many Public Houses can cater for a stagecoach and four these days, but I dare say the old coach houses of the Kings Head and Bell and the Crown and Thistle, in Abingdon, would have give them a good place to rest over.

The stagecoaches were raising money for Help for Heroes and The Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund.

Oxfam Revealed

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Tesco Plans
The scaffolding – in place since Easter – has been removed from 30-32 Stert Street and once again it’s easy to see and get inside the Oxfam shop.

Although the cleaning of the lower part of the building is still to do, the upper part of the building looks transformed after renovation and cleaning.

Crowds cheer in David Walliams at Abingdon Lock

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David Walliams
When we arrived at Abingdon Lock a large crowd had already begun to gather to support TV personality, and charity-challenge-taker, David Walliams – who is attempting to swim 140 miles of the River Thames over 8 days.
David Walliams
On this the second day of the challenge, David started at dawn to make up for 2 miles lost yesterday. The press boat came in about 20 minutes before David, and filmed some crowd scenes before it got dark.

It was dark when David finally swam through to Abingdon Lock at 20:20. Alongside were,  canoes and another swimmer for moral support. He had made up the lost miles by doing 20 miles today.
David Walliams
Not quite 20:20 vision but it is difficult to get pictures over a large crowd . Wrapped up from the cold, David Walliams starts off again from Abingdon to Goring tomorrow soon after 7 am.

You can make donations to Sports Relief and follow his progress on this link.