It’s autumn on the postbox topper on Abingdon Market Place.
It’s autumn around the war memorial.
There’s autumn climbing out over the wall from Abingdon School
There is autumn or jesień in the Polski Sklep Żubr shop window.
A book called Hello Autumn is in the Mostly Books shop window.
Autumn is the season between summer and winter when leaves fall from the trees, the Michaelmas Fair comes to Abingdon, the clocks go back, and squirrels used to hibernate, but they don’t anymore.
The Children’s Air Ambulance shop in Abingdon will be closing permanently on Thursday 6th October 2022 at 5pm. They thank customers and say the Air Ambulance helicopters continue to operate from Oxford. Their nearest shop is Headington and people can still support them through their website.
Since the Abingdon store opened in 2018, total sales have generated over £313,000 which equates to nearly 90 potentially lifesaving transfer missions. It has also received over 13,000 bags of donated goods.
A notice in the window of Added Ingredients says that the shop will not be reopening fully in October, as planned, but may open for a stock sale (cash only). For a long time, Jill Carver has been one of the mainstays of the town centre, not only running Added Ingredients but also chairing the Chamber of Commerce. There is more information on the Added Ingredients website.
The frame of the new 85-bedroom hotel on the site of the old Tesco Garden Centre is underway.
Parts of the site are vulnerable to flooding. A flood-survey was done before development which says the building itself will be in flood zones 1 and 2. Part of the site area that will not be built on is flood zone 3a.
zone 1: less than 0.1% chance of flooding in any year
zone 2: 0.1% – 1% chance of flooding in any year
zone 3a: greater than 1% chance of flooding in any year
zone 3b: greater than 3.3% chance of flooding in any year
From the flood maps in the survey, it looks as if areas of the Tesco carpark, such as the area between the hotel and the filling station and access road are in zone 3b. The last widespread flooding of the Tesco Carpark and access road was probably February 2014 (pictured below).
