It’s evident this year that maize has become the main crop in the agricultural land surrounding South Abingdon. Fields bordering Masefield Crescent
and those near Overmead and Virginia Way are cultivating this tall plant.
Known for its efficiency in transforming sunlight into biomass, maize serves as a source of animal feed. And with the growing emphasis on renewable energy, it is used in the production of biogas through anaerobic digestion, as highlighted by Countryfile.
Members of Abingdon Drama Club took part in the annual Drama Club walk, starting at the tall pointy thing in Abingdon and heading to Oxford, visiting pubs along the way.
Abingdon Drama Club (ADC) is celebrating its 80th year of fostering dramatic talent. As the club looks to the future, its Junior Drama Classes (JDC) are a fertile ground for cultivating talent for the next 80 years.
Leon Witcomb teaches the JDC during term time. To showcase the progress of his young actors, Leon directs a term-end production. This year’s offering, ‘Abstract Extracts’, consisted of extracts from various plays already performed by Abingdon Drama Club. The show was watched by the young actors and parents.
Here, Leon Witcomb, the drama teacher, shows them how it is done.
Roysse’s Gateway, the historic entrance to The Old Abingdon Grammar School, has undergone conservation work in recent weeks.
Building conservationists have made repairs, and undertaken preservation work to prevent further decay and given the Roysse Arms a new coat of paint. The gateway used to lead into the school yard and was the gift of the Earl of Abingdon in 1811. The gateway is now permanently closed since the yard is now a public garden.
John Roysse, at the age of sixty-three, established the school in the year 1563, providing education for sixty-three boys. John Roysse left substantial funds to ensure the school’s enduring legacy. Today, the school is thriving on a larger site. It educates a significantly larger number of boys, and will soon welcome girls. See Abingdon School to welcome girls for the first time
Today, on the 1st August, the City Daily Photo Bloggers theme is ‘Fruit.’ With blackberry season in full swing in the country lanes around Abingdon, I not only picked blackberries for a crumble but clicked blackberries to share. They are bitter-sweet. The initial delight can be followed by a creepy crawly.
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