A new hair dressing salon called Wisteria Avenue opened last Saturday in Abingdon.
It is in the same premises that once housed Local Roots in East St Helen Street.
This is also the same premises that houses the little basement museum – a very interesting place to visit if you ever get the chance.
This evening, on Ebay, the 1960 Abingdon Rural District Official Guide c. 1960 fetched £13.50 plus postage.
A few days ago a postcard of Abingdon Sanatorium went for £21.88 plus postage and one of Abingdon Warren Hospital went for £22.00 plus postage.
This is a detail from a postcard that has a few days to go on Ebay. It looks interesting and will probably cost a few pounds.
The Practical Motorist advertised at H. J. Polley, on the postcard, would have cost 3d back then but will cost £11.99 + postage now on Ebay.
The BBC had a non-Brexit news story yesterday asking ‘What has happened to Woolworths’ stores 10 years after closure?‘ Checking back on this blog I can see the Woolworths closure was in December 2008.
The article goes on to say ‘Poundland owns the biggest number of ex-Woolworth premises’.
Poundland took over the ex-Woolworths stores in Abingdon, but only after Cargo had run it for a couple of years.
Poundland has been diversifying, and now have £2 sections, and £5 sections, and Pep & Co clothes.
They have many lines such as hardware, and CDs, and pic’n’mix and stationary that are not so very different from what you would have found in Woolworths. The big difference is that in Poundland there is no need for small change.
Peter sent me this picture last weekend. It was a medal displayed in the window of Art and Stuff, which is near the war memorial in Abingdon.
Such medals were given to the families of servicemen killed in WW1, and known as Memorial Plaques. The name of the serviceman is displayed beneath a laurel crown held by Britannia, with a British Lion alongside. Two dolphins represent British sea power, and below a second lion mauls an eagle.
Anybody who has been into Art and Stuff will know Grommit, who lets his owner know when anybody has come into the shop.
Oenone, his owner, was telling me all that information about the medal, and about some other finds from WWI that were on display. She is a fount of information when it comes to antiques and art stuff.
But when it came to nearby businesses in Bath Street I could tell her something she did not know. There is a new tailoring service, with a sewing machinist, next to Masons.