My entry for the City Daily Photo theme day of yellow is speed camera. The one pictured above is sited just before John Mason school, in Abingdon, where there are also speed bumps, on the Wooton Road.

When speed cameras were introduced in Abingdon back in 1992 they were grey. A change in the law in 2001 meant speed cameras were given a yellow vinyl sheet to ensure they can be seen.

There are four fixed speed cameras in Abingdon – all yellow:
Drayton Road – 30 MPH
A4183 – Oxford Road – 30 MPH
Wooton Road – 30 MPH
Audlett drive – 40 MPH

Speed cameras use radar technology to measure how fast a vehicle is travelling and to trigger the camera to take two photos in quick succession. A powerful flash will illuminate the registration plate. It is rear facing so as not to blind drivers. There are also white calibration lines (5mph apart) on the roads surface. So there are two forms of detection: radar, and calibration.

The City Daily Photo group of bloggers have the theme of Green for the start of March. They have a different colour each month in 2019. Green was quite easy in Abingdon …

Green is the colour of the grass in front of the remains of Barton Court at Sherwood Avenue. The remains of Barton Court are featured in Abingdon People and Places. The protective fence is also green.

The Abingdon coat of arms shield has a green background and the town’s bus shelters used to be all green until the new ones arrived coloured black. Not all of the shelters have been painted black.

Green is the colour of a lot of the public utility cabinets. In some places you can see the old and the new green together. Green is also the colour of red roof tiles when lichen and moss have taken hold.

For how others have taken pictures of green, round the world, see City Daily Photo – Theme Day Green.

Without the musicians Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers could have no dancing . Here are three of their accordion players.

City Daily Photo Bloggers are celebrating the first of August with a music theme. To see music from around the world visit here.

The Abingdon company Morland and Co Limited (brewers, maltsters and spirit agents and manufacturers of aerated, mineral, and other waters, hotel keepers, licensed victuallers etc.,) no longer exist. However their memory lives on in Abingdon in the converted brewery buildings (now houses and flats), plaques, and engraved windows. The window above is to be found in the Brewery Tap public house, situated at the entrance of the former brewery. The Tap have a large range of beers and are currently Oxford CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) Town Pub of the Year 2017.

The Tap is also known for its spirit range with plenty of whiskys, rums, and gins. Spirits are the most powerful alcohol drinks, where distilling brings the alcohol content way above what is possible by fermentation of yeast.

On July 1, City Daily Photo bloggers are sharing photographs on the theme of “SPIRIT.” Click here to see more.