A Deli will be opening on Bath Street. The new proprietor is already well-known for catering to corporate events and parties.

I hear that the sale of the ex-Prices Stationers has progressed.

The ex Nursery Shop on Market Place is under offer.

The shops at Reynolds Way were first recorded in the 1965 Abingdon Directory, and at that time, not all the units were taken.

The first shops were P. Holmes & Son, Bakers and Confectioners, their third shop.

Peta Ladies Hairdresser

Cottrells, butchers. Their 5th shop.

At 13/15,  Wattes (Provisions Stores).

By 1969 only P Holmes & Son was still there:
1, Durham (Fish Fryer)
3, Arnold and Son
5, P Holmes & Son (Baker & Confectioner)
7, Lowe (Ladies’ Hairdresser)
9, Wiblin (Butcher)
11, West S. Helen’s Fruiterers
13/15 Lapwoods (Provisions Stores)

The Chiropody Clinic re-opened today in new premises at Coxeter House.  They were previously off Bath Street and have been going since 1983. Their website is https://www.abingdonchiropody.com/.

The Spice Valley restaurant, previously on that premises, closed last September after being there since 1998.

The former Children’s Air Ambulance shop has pages from the Financial Times in the window. This could well be a sign that something is happening inside.

Several businesses have been using that premises since Braggs closed in 2002. Braggs began trading in 1912. (This picture is cut from one I found on eBay from May 16th 1994, by John Lawrence. Somebody in Latvia is selling old press photographs from the Oxford Mail, mostly of Abingdon Town F.C. This one was of the museum but does show Braggs.)