Daniel has taken more amazing aerial views of Abingdon.
Tim sent me pictures of a lot of the snow people in his street. Some melted before he could get to them. This one appears to be supported by the wheelie bin.
Michael visited the Albert Park and sent one of the more exotic snow people
We woke sometime after 9am to see that the Velux window was covered in snow. We breakfasted fairly quickly, but not as quickly as a lot of young families. By the time we got out there were lots of other people out and about at St Helen’s Wharf.
The snow had been falling until about 10 am and was still in the branches of trees.
There were quite a few people walking the Ock Valley Walk.
It was like Narnia (a winter wonderland). Beautiful.
Then round to Albert Park where the snow was less virginal. There were nearly as many snowmen as people.
I have tried to blur the faces so not nobody is too recognisable in these days of GDPR but it is a shame not to show a little bit of the fun.
Here are three snowmen with a snow dog. It looked more like a dog than the snowmen looked like people.
It was a chance to bring out those sledges even without the slopes.
Prince Albert who was featured in yesterday’s post would have recognized what was happening.
Walking home by Abingdon School we saw one snow man in the grounds.
Home again now, and the snow is already beginning to melt.
I went out for a walk round Albert Park. The light from the setting sun caught Prince Albert above it all. There were people out for walks, and families playing.
One of Abingdon’s greatest monuments is of a German Prince, admired and taken to heart by Victorian Abingdonians. They shared with Queen Victoria’s grief and created a civic memorial.
Prince Albert died at the age of 42. He had become known as a reformer in causes such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide. He was instrumental in the the Great Exhibition of 1851. The statue was finished in 1865.
Facing Prince Albert is the Church of St Michael and All Angels Church – finished in 1867.
Trinity Church, nearby, was finished in 1875.
In Victorian days smoke rose from chimneys. The chimneys in Park Road are memorials to the age of coal.
I was returning from work on my bike (having gone a day early by mistake). The sun was rising over the Thames beyond Oday Hill and the sky was overcast and orange.
Rain was beginning to fall, and over the old dog walking field a rainbow formed. Since the start of the year, notices have appeared to say this field is Private Land. Before that there were notices to warn that it was being closed for dog walking.
Soon a full rainbow had grown.
My phone could not get all of it in at once and so here are two pictures – combined. The houses of Masefield Crescent are at the end of the rainbow.