Smarts Fish and Chips have reopened in the town centre after a closure for refurbishment that lasted several months.
The large new unit in Bury Street is being fitted out for Superdrug to move in next to Boots. It has been empty since being built during 2013.
Almost ten years ago this blog reported, in July 2006, that the price of petrol was at a high of 99.9p a litre. Back then it was on an upward trend about to go above £1.00 for the first time. Ten years on and the price is back down at 99.9p a litre again at Tesco .
Over the road at Fairacres Trading Estate the Homebase chain have been sold to Westfarmers, an Australia’s hardware chain that runs Bunnings Warehouses. Homebase store will be rebranded with the Bunnings name in three to five years time.
On Saturday there was an opening event at Pandora. They really opened at the busy time before Christmas.
So they waited until now to have such a launch event. The Pandora Abingdon Facebook page has more.
Below Abingdon Bridge there is a little bit of flooding over by the Abingdon Vale Cricket Pitch, but nothing like last winter.
During the winter months, on Abingdon Bridge, work is underway on the roof of the Nags Head pub, and nearby at ,the Abingdon Boat Centre, work is happening on the ex-chandlery shop that will open as a Riverside Cafe in the Spring, with the Chandlery moving to the smaller building alongside.
Unit 1 of the Old Gaol restaurants has been let. If Captainkaos’s rumour is correct, then it will become Koh Abingdon, a Thai restaurant – part of the expanding Koh Thai chain.
No movement at the Upper Reaches yet. This hotel is owned by Caparo Hotels who say on their web site ‘Caparo Hotels is a management and investment company, which currently operates four hotels in Southern and Central England.’ But they show only three.
Information about the Upper Reaches has been removed since last year.