The Abingdon Museum basement is now the One Planet Abingdon ‘Climate Emergency Centre‘. It was opened on 25th September as part of the Big Green Day in Abingdon.
They are open Thursday, Fridays and Saturday 10am – 4pm. It is run by volunteers. You can drop in and share ideas. Coffee is available.
Today the Abingdon Carbon Cutters were bottling apple and pear juice. Different groups will be using the room at the side.
An Exhibition of photographs by Abingdon based photographer Martin Wackenier opened this week at the County Hall Museum and runs until 23rd December 2021.
The exhibition is called ‘It’s not all black and white, Abingdon in true colours’. The pictures have been part of Martin’s Virtual Photography Exhibition 2021, and about twenty have been enlarged to poster size for the physical exhibition.
Born in Ypres, in Belgium, Martin has lived and been taking photographs in Abingdon for 13 years. He started a project in 2015 to take 2,000 photographs of people from the town in the Market Place. He is often asked to be the official photographer for events in town, and has also been official photographer for The Henley Royal Regatta, London Fashion Week, and a number of Music Festivals. He runs his own professional business Devine Times Photography
The Abingdon Street Fair was back after missing a year in 2020. Street vendors were outside their restaurants to add local colour to the event.
Abingdon has a vibrant restaurant scene.
There were only a few face masks to be seen.
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The crowds were big.
The rides look the same as two years ago when the event was last held.
Here is a video of some of the rides.
This Monday at around noon, the AJ Bell Womens Cycle Tour, raced through Abingdon.
It was the first of six days of racing from Oxfordshire to Suffolk. Before they came through, the bollards were removed from Abingdon Bridge (weak bridge awaiting repairs), and the road was brushed.
Lots of outriders on motorbikes came through before the race. One rider stopped and stood in front of a car in Bridge Street, with a flag, to warn the riders of the obstacle.
There was a reporter interviewing spectators near the Crown and Thistle.
The riders came up the rise of Abingdon Bridge in a large bunch (called a ‘peloton’ in the Tour de France), with support cars behind. Crowds cheered as they came up Bridge Street, and by the fair on the Market Place. They raced by in seconds
More people were waiting to cheer them through Stert Street.
The race highlights will be shown this evening at 9pm on ITV4. Also I have made it my entry for the city daily photographers start of month theme day on ‘winning’. More entries here. Thankyou to Elizabeth for the last picture.