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Scout Fireworks 2010

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Scout Fireworks
The weather was perfect for a firework display. There was a starry sky and large crowds turned out.
Scout Fireworks
The mayor got to push the denonator setting off a chain of sizzles, booms, bangs, swishes, swooshes, oohs and aahs …
Scout Fireworks
The pyrotechnics were organised – as every year – by the scouts and to be seen at the back of Long Furlong Community Centre in north Abingdon. They celebrate the failed gunpowder plot of 5 November 1605 – when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the houses of parliament.

Long before Halloween …

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Old Gaol
Here Lyeth Y Body of Thomas Allen in St Helen’s Churchyard.

Long before Halloween came to represent dressing up, begging, and the threat of  vandalism, it meant All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween) or the night before All Saints’ (Hallows’) Day – the day when Christians used to celebrate those who had gone on to become saints.

Long before Halloween there were older traditions. For example, at this time of year the Celtic festival of Samhain marked the night when the lighter half of the year gave way to the darker. On such a night, it was believed, that the division between this side of the grave and the other could weaken and break down … Wiki has more

Abingdon Autumn Craft Fair 2010

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abingdon Craft Fair
After an incident two years ago when this wall got demolished by a delivery lorry, it has been given added protection in 2010 for the Craft Fair .
abingdon Craft Fair
Abingdon Autumn Craft Fair takes place over two long weekends in October (Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 and Thursday 28 – Sunday 31 ). It is at Abingdon’s medieval Abbey buildings…
abingdon Craft Fair
a place much loved by pigeons. These two were engaged in a lot of heavy pecking and amorous fluttering, quite unconcerned by the crowds milling between the food halls below.

Inside the main hall there were many new and well known stalls.
abingdon Craft Fair
Very familiar and in his usual position, Mr Kemp offered passers by some of his fine Sloe Gin. Sloes are not the sort of fruit easily cultivated, but are generally harvested from the hedgerows – often by people looking to supplement pensions.