The large house formerly used as a Nursery in Faringdon Road has new signs to make it more obvious that it is Wantage House.
Abingdon, Wantage and Faringdon are the three Market Towns in the Vale of White Horse District. Having all three town names in one address is something special. But I don’t know who will be operating from Wantage House and has put up those signs.
65 Oxford Road was surrounded by shrubs and trees when the Google Street View camera came through Abingdon.
Here is 65 Oxford Road as it looks today. Not a blade of grass remains.
Permission to demolish the original house and replace it with two detached houses was obtained subject to certain conditions, including the protection of trees.
A report, previous to this planning application, from August 2009, says that there were 11 trees (2 of high quality, 3 of medium quality, 5 of lower quality, and 1 of inferior quality).
Thanks to Pat for 2 of the pictures and Google for the other.
The flood waters are taking a long time to go down this time round – even after two or three drier days.
Oxfordshire County Council tweeted this afternoon “Many Oxon rivers are peaking/beginning to fall but they’re still very high compared to normal. Please take care on towpaths.”
The heron opposite St Helen’s Wharf is on the towpath.
This evening the flood warning was lifted on the River Thames in Abingdon. It has been downgraded to a flood alert.
I see from the comments that part of a tree caused damage to the side area of The Boundary House pub. By this morning they had chopped up the wood and waterproofed the roof and are presumably open again.
A little further round Appleford Drive the trunk of a tree in Peachcroft Park has split in two.
In that same area the To Let sign, for the shop that was Blockbuster, at the Peachcroft Shops has been sent crashing.
Blockbuster pulled the shutters down for the final time in November. The UK company went into administration earlier in 2013, but failed to find a buyer.
Blockbuster took over the Ritz Video chain, including the Peachcroft shop, in the 1990s.