This Thursday, there will be a free shoe cleaning service to people on the Market Place in Abingdon (along with free tea, coffee, hot cross buns and Easter eggs!)
Maundy Thursday is the day when Christians remember Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.
Outside the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon miniature snowmen have been left to their fate. The first one to melt appears to have been dosed with red food dye.
By the next day the three in the centre had got frizzled by the sun.
There was a message near the snowmen which read ’20-23 June @ Unicorn Theatre’ .
As Agatha Christie said in one of her books, ‘And then there were none .’
The Abingdon and District Musical Society have two concerts this March. One was on the 10th March, but I have at least got something out before the second concert.
Choral Concert on Saturday 24th March
PURCELL arr. BRITTEN: Chaconne in G Minor
BRITTEN: “Gloriana” – Choral Dances<
PURCELL: "Dido and Aeneas" (Concert Performance)
The conductor will be Alexander Walker and the leader of the orchestra will be Kate Bailey. Thanks to them for this picture of their choir and orchestra performing at The Yolande Paterson Hall. (© Abingdon & District Musical Society. All Rights Reserved.)
This week The Studio Theatre Club will be performing J M Barrie’s Quality Street in The Unicorn Theatre, part of Abingdon’s Abbey Buildings. For more information see the Studio Theatre Club whats next
The play is set at the time when all Europe was troubled by the Napoleonic Wars, and takes place in a rather prim and proper town. J.M. Barrie’s comedy is about love and its loss, and was written before Barrie’s more famous work Peter Pan.
The play was a hit and inspired the naming of a certain box of chocolates. (Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. All Rights Reserved. Found in Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 22 May 1936 on www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.)