Monthly Archives: August 2011

Hook Norton Shire Horses open Beer Festival

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Summer Beer Festival
The Hook Norton shire horses entered Abingdon over Abingdon Bridge.
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The shire horses deliver locally within 5 miles of the brewery, at Hook Norton, but attend many public functions.
Summer Beer Festival
They came to Abingdon to open the Beer Festival at the Kings Head and Bell – free beer was on offer from the back of the dray.
Summer Beer Festival
The Beer Festival is on over the bank holiday weekend and has 5 special ciders and 20 ales – these include 6 from Hook Norton … Hooky Dark, Hooky Gold, Old Hooky, Hooky Double Stout, Hooky Haymaker, and Hooky Flagship.

Nasio Trust Summer Music Event

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The Nasio Trust was formed to build centres to care for children affected by HIV in Kenya. They also work with young people locally who learn a lot by raising money to travel to Kenya to help. The project is called Operation Exit 7 – a link can explain better than me
Nasio Trust Music Event
This group of young people, some who currently live at The Foyer, in Abingdon, had organised today’s fund raising day on the Market Place.
Nasio Trust Music Event
There was also a group there from Berinsfield involved in a similar project.
Nasio Trust Music Event
I’m afraid I must have missed the performance by traditional African Masai Dancers, but did have some very good rice and peas thanks to ACKHI from East Oxford.
Nasio Trust Music Event
There were also a number of music performances during the day, face and nail painting, cakes, a bouncy castle, a roundabout, fairground hammers, and two tombolas – one at 50p and one at a pound a go.

Abingdon postcards on Ebay Today

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I used to regularly buy postcards from ebay, and kept a watch out for Abingdon postcards.

I  revisited ebay with a search for “Abingdon Postcards” just now and found these four postcards …
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Abingdon, Heraldic Series, Cities and Towns No.203 … Published by Frank Smith, Oxford … 1905
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Date of 1910 written on the back. Not posted.
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Message dated 1919.
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Postmarked Wantage 1910.

The scenes on these postcards are still very easy to recognise after over 100 years.  But go a little further out from the centre of Abingdon… and houses have replaced fields …  and older dwellings like  those at Northcourt have been surrounded by, and become part of, the greater town of Abingdon.

Road works soon moving from East to West

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Road works
No sooner had the drainage works been completed at the top of East St Helen Street but work was begun by Southern Electric. That work is still on-going, digging up a lot of the pavements.
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Meanwhile in West St Helen Street, the puzzling white markings saying FULR and FULP,  reported on this blog some time back, have been replaced by other markings.
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Roadworks will soon be moving to West St Helen Street – which is about to be resurfaced.

While the work is in progress the one way system on St Helen’s Wharf Bridge will be removed. It is the week that schools go back and so there could be delays at times.
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Near the earlier road works on East St Helen Street… last week Sue Ryder were reported in the Abingdon Herald under the headline “Charity shop hurt by road’s closure“.

Today they will have a Fundraising Day.