Thank you to Daniel for more drone pictures of the Abingdon’s new estate by the Wootton Road. Driving past the other day my wife said it looked like Toy Town.
Turn the drone round and the land looks less like Toy Town and more like a building site.
You can see a lot more on Daniel’s youtube video at https://youtu.be/TsN62B9sJv0.
The AGM on Saturday 5th March 2022, in the South aisle of St Helen’s church, will be followed at 3.45pm by a talk entitled ‘Surprising secrets: a tour of St Helen’s hidden rooms and archives’, given by the former church archivist, Anne Smithson.
The Friends of St Helen’s Church help preserve St Helen’s Church for future generations. Routine repairs cost between £10,000 and £15,000 each year, and the friends help pay for these.
The Friends want to encourage membership amongst people who live and work in the wider Abingdon community, and further afield. They run regular social and fund-raising events, and ensure that members are kept in touch with news of the church.
Councillor Cheryl Briggs, the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames, was among those planting trees in Rye Farm Meadow, near Abingdon Lock.
Local residents came along to plant the 420 trees, and that included young families and children. The Woodland Trust donated all the trees, the tree guards were recycled from Besselsleigh Woods, and Oxford Wood Recycling and CAG Oxfordshire funded tree stakes. The event was co-ordinated by the Abingdon Carbon Cutters and Abingdon Rotary. Permission was given by VWHDC (Vale of White Horse District Council) on their land.