Along Ock Street, and in the town centre, there was dancing by Mr Hemmings’ Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers and visiting sides.

Mr Hemmings Day of Dance is a celebration of the birthday of Tom Hemmings who rejuvenated Abingdon Morris in the early 20th century.

Morris Dancing no longer seems such a quaint old custom.

There are probably more morris dancers now as there have ever been. By today’s evidence many were young, and many female.

The Summertown Morris from Oxford only started up a couple of years ago and have an excellent group.

After all the teams had done a turn or two on the Market Place …

all the groups came to together and did a mass dance. Then they went back to dance at pubs along Ock Street.

I’ve uploaded the mass dance to … youtube.

One of the last duties of the outgoing Mayor is to thank people who have contributed a lot to Abingdon. The outgoing Mayor, Councillor Monica Lovatt, is seen here presenting one of the Mayoral awards.

Councillor Samantha Bowring was elected as the new Mayor for the year 2013/14.

In any normal year the outgoing Deputy Mayor, Andrew Todd, seen beside her, would have become Mayor. But two by-elections last week have changed the make up of a very tight council.

Samantha is seen here with her daughter, who will be one of her escorts, and the new Deputy Mayor Angela Lawrence.

Mr Malcolm Hill, the mace bearer, is seen with them.

The day started off cloudy as aircraft purred overhead, heading towards the show at Dalton Barracks.

By about lunchtime the show was busy thanks to the blue sky and sun and another excellent show program. There were lots of stalls and amusements …

the usual mix of vintage cars, traction engines, and old military vehicles.

Then came the air show with near ideal conditions. The Tristar from Brize Norton was the largest plane to fly by.

A Lancaster from the RAF Coningsby, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, had top billing.

Another World War II plane was a Hurricane based locally at Wallingford.

The Breitling Wingwalkers returned for a second year. In this manoeuvre the wing walkers got very close to holding hands.

Money raised goes to the Air Ambulance which also did a display. Thanks to Neil and Co for organising another fantastic event.

There was a Book sale at the Fire Station from 10 -2 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Firefighters Charity and to raise much needed funds for them.

The Abingdon Cadets of the Army, Navy and RAF were recruiting new members in the Market Place, Abingdon.

The sea cadets mentioned they needed a treasurer if you know anybody.

Come to think of it I need help with Abingdon Town Amateur Boxing club as some committee members will be moving on this summer so if you know anybody who has an interest in the sport please get in touch.

Oxfordshire Art Weeks starts in Oxford City today and next week is our area. The new Riverly Club at Thames View, Abingdon, will be one venue. A first chance to see the newest building in Abingdon.