Work has commenced repairing Abingdon Bridge, where an area has been fenced off, a portable metal cabin unloaded, and pontoons floated.
The ex Added Ingredients will re-open as a craft beer/artisan drinks shop + microbar and be called The Cowshed Abingdon. There is more information on the Oxford Drinker website. Opening Dec 1st.
The Market Place Christmas Tree was erected and decorated today in time for the Christmas Extravaganza this weekend.
The Mayor of Abingdon, Andy Foulsham, and Sally Foulsham were at Abingdon Baptist Church this morning to open the Christmas Fayre. They are pictured here with the Abingdon Town Crier and the new Minister at the Baptist Church, Revd Rachel Hughes.
On the way in, we were welcomed and given a Christmas card with the Christmas service times and a ticket for a free cup of coffee at 35 Ock Street. Inside were tables with competitions and things to buy – new and second-hand. Money raised goes towards the church development project.
In the back room, there was a Christmas Tree exhibition.
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The NSPCC Autumn Fayre happens next Saturday (19 November) at the Roysse Room.
Starting at the same time, there is a Christmas Fayre and Christmas Tree Competition at Abingdon Baptist Church. Proceeds go towards the Abingdon Baptist Church development fund.
The induction of the Revd Rachel Hughes, the new minister at the baptist church, will occur on Saturday, 3 December 2022, at 11 am.
After a service at St Helen’s Church, the uniformed organisations marched to the war memorial where many townspeople were waiting.
Abingdon Town Band were at the War Memorial and played Slaidburn as the uniformed organisations gathered.
Service sheets had been handed out by members of the Rotary Club so that everybody could join in the responses and the singing.
A member of the Royal British Legion said the exhortation: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
Alison Rich of Abingdon Town Band then sounded the last post.
Two minutes of silence followed to remember the fallen.
There followed the laying of the wreaths as the band led the singing of the hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past.’
The short service ended with The National Anthem.
There followed a march past the County Hall where dignitaries gathered,
including, on a platform, the Mayor, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, and a senior officer who received the salute.
Some people then viewed the wreaths. Three of them had been put there on Friday by local schools. There was also a wreath from visitors from the twin town of Argentan in France.
This is a video of the arrival at the war memorial, the sounding of the last post and a short extract from uniformed organisations marching by the County Hall.
