At Masons, on Bath Street, there was an outside display of buttons going for 2p per button.

The bargain box of buttons has a plastic tumbler so that customers can help themselves in a pick-a-mix way.

Masons, on Bath Street, is an old fashion haberdasher selling dress fabrics – piled high, craft fabric, paints, dyes, and buttons.

I am trying to imagine what people will do with a tumbler full of buttons.We are far more used to pushing buttons these days, rather than searching through Grandma’s button box, for a missing button to exactly match a dress, suit or pyjamas.

The Joncare showroom, in the Radley Road Industrial Estate in Abingdon, is having a closing down sale of various daily living aids such as mobility scooters and walkers.

Joncare was established in 1978 by John Prout, an engineer. John created some of the original and innovative Joncare product to meet the diverse and special needs of children with physical disabilities

Another company selling aids called BES Rehab Ltd acquired Joncare in 2016.

Last time I looked down the Radley Road Industrial Estate, about half the businesses were to do with cars: servicing, repairs, MOTs, tyres, car wash, and Taxis. I got my car MOT’d and serviced down there as Belingers have moved to Didcot. A lot of other Vauxhall owners apparently did the same.

At the library there is a small display showing the Longworth Factory that opened on the Radley Road in 1960 to make scientific instruments. The board tells a little of the history of Longworth, from when they made ironing boards in the ex-Abingdon Carpet Factory. Longworth are now known as Penlon.

On the way to the library, I passed an MG, Made in Abingdon…

a bollard, probably made in Ballard’s Foundry in Abingdon …

and some pottery, Made in Abingdon, in the window of Added Ingredients.

Bob Frampton will soon have a new book out called ‘Made in Abingdon’ about MGs. The museum always has a number of artifacts Made in Abingdon. And on Heritage Open Day, on the weekend of 9th-10th September, we hope to have pictures and walks about things Made in Abingdon, and the places they were made. So I would love it if people could send any pictures they have on the theme ‘Made in Abingdon’ to backstreet60@gmail.com .

Two of Abingdon’s Turkish Barbers have had a re-style – possibly to show that they are run by close relations. Both Re-style …

and EFES, the original Abingdon Turkish Barber, now have very similar liveries.