Things have been very quiet on St Helen’s Wharf …
as the road is closed for 2 days for resurfacing work over the other side of the iron bridge.
St Helen’s Wharf Closed for two days
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Utopia is on Stert Street
A new shop is Coming Soon to Stert Street – well in time for Christmas. It is underneath the Utopia Beauty Salon and will sell some of the beauty products used upstairs as well as new lines.
Stert Street was once the ugly duckling on the Abingdon retail scene – it was the street of empty shop fronts. It was the street where a child in a buggy had to breathe in traffic fumes. But times have changed, and Stert Street has been transformed.
Stert Street got good wide pavements out of Abits (Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy) and better air quality. Other streets did less well. The High Street pavements are still waiting to be rectified two years after they were laid.
Abingdon Remembers – 13th Nov 2011
A second and much larger remembrance ceremony (compared with the Armistice Day ceremony) took part at the war memorial today. A lot of the people who take part, both service people past and present, and dignitaries, attend a church service at St Helen’s Church beforehand.
The ceremony was again very well attended and very moving. But as a member of the public, to get a place, you now have to get there quite early. People were standing back along the High Street able to hear the music and see the parade but missing out on the quieter prayers and poems.
During the ceremony wreathes are laid by dignitaries and clubs and societies, and after the ceremony many people choose to place their poppy or a small cross next to the memorial. If you did miss the cermony I have more images and some of the words and music on a short video. Music was played by Abingdon Town Band, and the Last Post and Reveille was sounded by Alison Rich, their principal cornet player …
Oxford Comedy Deathmatch perform at Comedy Abingdon
Can I say thankyou to the people who organised this third Comedy Abingdon event at the Unicorn Theatre.
For anybody who remembers ‘Who’s Line is it anyway’ the format was similar. Two teams from Oxford Comedy Deathmatch were improvising suggestions from the mainly Abingdon audience.
In this round the chap on the right is being interviewed about the Catford traditional of spoon playing. He describes how a Catford spoon player helped defend the London Borough of Catford against intruders from the neighbouring borough who come doing the Lambeth Walk.
Two members of the audience were helping here to move the actors as part of another scene.
Oxford Comedy Deathmatch will be back again at the Unicorn Theatre from 14th-17th December for an improvised pantomime.
It’s for Charity.
Different classic panto improvised each night.
Tickets £8 / £6 from www.ocdimprov.com & at the door. “Book before December for discount and feel all organised.”