At lunchtime today, town council staff closed the Ock Valley Walk having been informed of a Health and Safety risk on the bridge at the town end.
People will now walk down the alternative route along Ock Street and breath in all those traffic fumes. Let us hope the closure is not for too long.
Laced with algae, pearled by lichen, an angel is asleep over a grave with the words … ‘Cherished memories – our darling little daughter’.
From the era that first imagined Peter Pan a young angel looks down on another grave.
Frozen in time, these three stone angels guard graves in the Old Cemetery in Abingdon.
Last Sunday at Trinity the annual townwide bereavement service took place, and there was a stone angel pictured on the Trinity facebook page. At the service people were invited to light a candle for a loved one.
The Design Room, previously known as Fantasia, and before that as a butcher, is being converted into two flats. The large shop window, on Ock Street, has displayed wedding dresses for over a decade, and before that trays of meat
In this picture from the Radley Village website, showing flooding in Abingdon, the shop can be seen near that unlikely flooding event.
Over Friday, and the weekend the Craft Fair returned to the Abbey Buildings. The company that organised the event until 2015 had ceased trading. They use to run a larger event for two weeks. The Friends of Abingdon have brought back the Craft Fair focusing more on traditional crafts in 2017 for a shorter period.
There were demonstrations.
The ancient rooms make a great backdrop for the traditional crafts.
The Long Gallery was carpeted this year and felt warmer.
The undercroft was cosy.
Hopefully stall holders did well out of the event and it will be back next year.