You may have noticed the wool round the ticket machine on West St Helen Street this morning …
and the string of knitting and crochet hung out near St Helen’s Wharf.
Overnight Abingdon suffered an attack of graffitti knitting , also known as yarn bombing, or guerrilla crochetting.
Perhaps it is coincidence that Rosie’s Tea Room was blacked out last Sunday, perhaps not. Rosie’s is a known hangout for the knitters of Abingdon.
The front façade of the County Hall in Abingdon is the view visitors remember. The classical design dates from the time of Christopher Wren and is a statement from the Abingdon citizens of that time of the growing importance of Abingdon as County Town of Berkshire.
The County Hall is as magnificent as ever but now houses the town museum. Abingdon is no longer the County Town and is no longer even in Berkshire, having been annexed into Oxfordshire.
But Abingdon is still great to those in the know.
My entry to the City Daily Photo Theme Day on Facades.