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Bath Street: From Art and Stuff to Loom Bands

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Bath Street
Bath Street is the Abingdon town centre street that missed out on recent refurbishments: whether resulting from ABiTS (Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy), or the refurbishment of the precinct. I remember Steve King campaigning on his Action4Abingdon forum to also get the Bath Street pavements done, but it did not happen.
Bath Street
The ABiTS York Stone paving only went as far as The Square, where you can find Art and Stuff, and the very friendly dog Grommet.
Bath Street
Retreat Hairdressing is down Bath Street and has old pavements.

Retreat Hairdressing are adding to Skye’s Loom to The Moon project which has already received lots of publicity, including: front page of this week’s Abingdon Herald and a large picture feature in the Daily Mail.

Skye, from Abingdon, is a 4 year old undergoing treatment for an aggressive brain tumor. The treatment involves surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, and is not easy. So Skye’s parent have set up a charity to research into better treatment for future children. They are using Skye’s Brainwave ‘a loom to the moon’ to raise funds. Lots of children have been making Loom Bands (the year’s big craze in schools) by weaving small elastic bands together. The aim is to join them together to reach the distance to the moon.
Bath Street
Retreat Hairdressing are hoping to get enough to go up their stairs, via the hand rail, before adding it to the Moon Loom.

About the new Zebra Crossing near Larkmead

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A new Zebra Crossing
A new Zebra Crossing has been installed at the top of Spring Road to help the morning migration of students going to Larkmead School, along Faringdon Road, and returnng home later in the day.
A new Zebra Crossing
Recently installed crossings on busier roads in Abingdon have been of the Pelican or Toucan variety, with traffic lights. The Zebra Crossing pre-dates such bird named crossings. The Belisha beacons either side are named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934 – according to Wikipedia.

Our Street in the Middle of our Town

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Our Street
We live on West St Helen Street in the centre of Abingdon. At one end, our street is dominated by St Helen’s Church and the River Thames. At the other end, there are shops, businesses and the Salvation Army Citadel. Most of the residences in the middle are three storey and many, even some of the modern ones like ours, have traditional Abingdon gables.
Our Street
We pay £100 a year for a parking permit and can usually find a parking space not too far from our house. Resident traffic wardens police the scheme and are there to help with much else – the town centre would not be the same without them. They probably know more about what is going on in central Abingdon than anybody. Here one of them is seen chatting to the lady who runs The Honey Pot florist.
Our Street
It is December 1st and she has just done a new Christmas window display featuring a floral swan. We are proud of our swans here in Abingdon.

Bath Street – this summer

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Bath Street Needs some TLC
Bath Street is the one shopping street in the town centre that has not yet been repaved, although the flower beds at one end, and the war memorial at the other have seen improvements.

At the further end of the street shops like Marie and Masons have many followers, but some of the businesses in the middle of the street do not seem to have fared so well.
Bath Street Needs some TLC
The florist has closed, and last week, to add insult to injury, somebody went on the rampage and broke their shop window, and those of some other Bath Street shops.

Bath Street Needs some TLC
Next door, was once a well known letting agency, which has not been re-let. Now, there is a planning application to create more accommodation at the rear of this shop and above. Flats do work and bring in money.

But it is to be hoped, once the nearby precinct work has been completed, that increased customer footfall will benefit Bath Street.