George Haslam and friends were playing at the Broad Face pub – where there is jazz every Sunday afternoon.
George will be conducting his Big Band, Swingtime, on Feb 19th to raise money for the Abingdon Arts Festival. The Choose Abingdon community shop will become the Arts Festival gallery and information centre up to and during the festival which starts on 17th March.
I am more used to seeing the very hungry caterpiller at Mostly Books
but I see it has also made an appearance at Masons with some other materials for children’s quilt covers and curtains.
Masons is unique to Abingdon. They have 3 shops supplying Abingdon and the surrounding areas with material for sewing, knitting, needlecraft as well as craft material for jewellery making, card making and scrap booking. There is also a seamstress to fix zips, and you can buy a kilt pin there if you need one for Burns Night.
The Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust has been trying something new at Abingdon Hospital. They have set up a pilot unit near ward 2 which if successful will be rolled out across the county later in the year.
The aim is to treat patients at or near home so they don’t loose their independence, and to reduce prolonged and expensive hospital admissions to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital. The assessment unit operating from Abingdon Hospital allows specialist diagnosis in urgent cases to see whether care can continue from home, or from the community hospital, or the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital.
Find out more at urgent and specialist care closer to home.
The obelisk is near to where the sheep market was held – and now the site of the war memorial. On the right is the Congregational Church erected in 1862 to replace an earlier Congregational Church building. It now houses Ask – a restaurant.
Inside the restaurant is a large reproduction of the ‘View West along Ock Street c 1875′ where you can pose for a 2011 digital photograph.