Thanks to Steve for this picture of  what was a Romanian Restaurant  in Bath Street (for a short while) and has now become the Abingdon Baguette Shop.

This is a few weeks after La Baguette in the Market Place closed after 20 years trading.

The Co-op lorry is the biggest vehicle that regularly travels down East St Helen Street.

The sharp right into West St Helen Street can be made more difficult by traffic, or cars parked in strange places on the road.

The Co-op in West St Helen Street was built with a loading lay-by in front. There are occasions when a car is parked on this lay-by, causing the lorry to wait and on occasions cause a tail back. The lorries arrive at all hours laden with 300kg cages on wheels that are pushed into the co-op storeroom. The friendly store staff often help the lorry driver.

Dorothy Perkins, in Abingdon, is to close a month from now and currently have a closing down sale.

The shop in Abingdon is quite small and is packed with rails of women’s fashion, and some accessories. Staff are very friendly and say there will still be a Dorothy Perkins in Witney and Oxford.

Have you ever wondered who was Dorothy Perkins. The chain began life in 1909 as H.P. Newman, and adopted its current name in 1939. It was not named after a real person but after a veteran rambling rose. (Thanks to Georges Seguin (Okki) for the picture of the Dorothy Perkins rose found on wikipedia.)

The quarry near Oday Hill looked worked out, with its rusting conveyor belts, a couple of years ago. Returning there in 2018 the quarry has a new lease of life.

Beyond it the land is getting drained so a lot more quarrying can begin.

So it looks like the quarry now extends further along, and either side of, the lorry access road.

The old quarry / landfill, next door, has become a nature reserve with a lake at one end. Other old quarry lakes off Peep O Day Lane have been fenced off for private fishing.