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Choose Abingdon Partnership One Year On

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Choose Abingdon Partnership
This evening the Choose Abingdon Partnership gave a presentation on what they have been doing since their creation almost a year ago. Choose Abingdon is a partnership along the lines of Didcot First and Bicester Vision – whose aim is to promote the town. So far Choose Abingdon has …

1. Set up the community shop. The current premises is about to be let, and so Scottish Widows who own the shop have offered Choose Abingdon an alternative premises.

2. Set up the Choose Abingdon Local Food and Craft Market with the help of Carbon Cutters. The first one will be on Saturday 23rd October.

3. Set up the Choose Abingdon Loyalty Card with sponsorship by Miele. The launch will be this coming Saturday.

4. Promoted Abingdon through the Whats On in Abingdon leaflet which has come out quarterly.

5. Designed new tourist maps for the town – which will soon appear instead of the current faded specimens.

We were shown a two minute video as a sampler of the 6 hours of Abingdon life that that has been professionally recorded. This and a growing photo library will be aimed at promoting Abingdon up to the Olympics.

Cargo going back to Witney and Somerfield to become the Co-op

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Top end precinct changes
Cargo are likely to be out of Abingdon by the end of October – they have a Closing Down Sale. This may tie in with the recent re-opening of Cargo in Witney with a larger premises. Cargo came to Abingdon when the Cargo in Witney closed during the redevelopment of the Witney Woolgate shopping centre.
Top end precinct changes
Somerfield is about to be re-branded as a co-operative food which will mean we will soon have two Co-ops in Abingdon Town Centre.

Where West is East

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West Waddy ADP
Our house has one claim to fame that I know of… It has the same house number as West Waddy ADP – the architects. We often get smartly dressed visitors knocking at the door asking for West Waddy.

West Waddy ADP are in East St Helen Street and we are West St Helen Street. So it is an easy mistake to make. West Waddy are the last house before the river next to the slipway – shown in the picture.

West Waddy have been celebrating, this year, 125 years since their predecessor John George Timothy West began practising in the Knowl off Stert Street. That makes them one of the oldest architectural practises in the country.