The blooms that have been planted, cared for, and watered by the Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council outdoor staff have made a fine display this summer.
The newest feature in 2015 are the hanging baskets and raised bed at Roysse’s Court.
Google have an animation, today, to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the first electric traffic lights.
101 years on, resurfacing continues on Drayton Road in Abindgon between 10pm and 6am, and Oxfordshire County Council has asked the contractor to put in electric traffic lights to allow two way traffic at St Helen’s Wharf –
after the anarchy of the weekend when people were asked to drive a few miles round, and didn’t.
The six week deadline notice, attached to the railings of Old Abbey House, has been removed in the last 24 hours.
It notified community groups that they had six weeks to register an interest in taking over the property. They would then have been given four and a half months to put together a bid.
If there have been no expressions of interest, Old Abbey House will be put back on the market by the Vale of White Horse District Council as ‘surplus to requirements’.
So could the gardens – an integral part of the Green Flag Award winning Abbey Gardens – one day be shut off from public access?
The new Polish Delicatessen at the top of West St Helen Street seem to be doing well since they opened about two weeks ago.
The last Polish Deli, called ‘PolDeli’, was on Stert Street, and closed in 2008 – soon after the Banking Collapse.
The shop previously known as Mary Brooks will be opening soon as Re-Style, a Traditional Turkish Barber. There is already one very successful Traditional Turkish Barber at the other end of the High Street – opened in June 2014.
Throwing Buns has a fresh new front.
Work is ongoing in the shop that was the OX14 Deli, so there is every chance a new business will be opening there in the months ahead.