The County Hall Museum is usually closed on Monday but was open today because it was a Bank Holiday, giving visitors a place to look around out of the wind. As well as the permanent exhibition, there was the Abingdon Alphabet exhibition.

Nineteen quilters from the three local quilting groups (Abbey, Fitzharrys and Barn Cafe) have produced an A-Z of Abingdon Quilt.

Q X Y Z are the more difficult letters in any A-Z. Q is for Quilt.

X for the Market Place X of paths

Y for Yoke. The museum has a permanent yolk.
Z for Zebra Crossing featuring characters from the Abingdon underpass mural

There were also individual quilts in the exhibition.

What would you have done for your X Y Z of Abingdon?

The latest exhibition at Abingdon Museum features trains that once ran on the Abingdon branch line,

planes that flew from RAF Abingdon,

and automobiles made at the Abingdon MG works. The exhibition has interesting display boards and a series of films about the different transports. I have not seen them all yet but found the film about the closure of the branch line very good.

The exhibition is from 7th January to 26th March 2023 on the museum’s first floor, up 37 steps. Find out more at https://www.abingdon.gov.uk/event/exhibition-planes-trains-automobiles-7-01-to-26-03-2023