The Abingdon Camera Club photo competition normally takes place during the Abingdon Arts Festival – which did not happen this year.
So the camera club have run it later in the year. The best entries have been displayed for the last week in the Abingdon Community Shop Window.
Prizes were awarded by Heather from Choose Abingdon to some of the junior and seniors entries. Well done to Billy who was 3rd last time and this time came 2nd.
Last week in the Community Shop there was an exhibition of old pictures. This late exhibit did not make it but you can watch all 9 minutes of it now.
The video shows troops recently returned from WWI (?) with old street scenes of Abingdon. It begins with the officers standing in a line and playing a trick on the camera. There is a parade led with a band that starts at the park and ends at the Market Place. We see the civic party and Mayor. Then people lay flowers at an early war memorial. It end with luncheon at the Corn Exchange and some fuzzy lines like we used to have on early TV.
(I’ll remove it after a week as I have no rights to this movie as it belongs to ‘IWM’ but hope you enjoy and can add more information.)
Summer may be over but thanks to this report by Rob we can experience it again …
The West End Allotment Association – the site’s just the other side of the A34 – held its second summer barbecue on 7th September. On a bright and breezy afternoon over 40 members, relatives and friends enjoyed delicious food, local beer and soft drinks, and the chance to meet & chat to other allotment-holders.
Derrick and Margaret, both professional chefs, treated us to delicious food – pork, sausages, burgers and much more …
Roy shows his appreciation of Jane’s courgette cake.
One of the highlights of the afternoon was the chance to don a bee-suit and visit Ed’s bee-hive, recently installed on one side of the site and producing a great honey harvest this year. It was only the children who volunteered!
The new edition of the Good Beer Guide puts the Nags Head in Abingdon in the top 10% of pubs in the UK – some achievement given that the pub only re-opened its doors in November 2012.
The Nags Head is situated on Abingdon Bridge and has four regular beers, including ‘Abingdon Bridge’ from the Loose Cannon brewery in Abingdon, and four guest beers.
The Nags Head re-opened in November 2012, having been closed for almost a year – at a time when other pubs were closing for good, 2 taken over by Tesco.
The Abingdon Street guide of 1869, in the local history section of Abingdon Library, shows what businesses have survived 144 years. There is one shop, Smiths The Chemist, a few churches, and several pubs including the Nags Head. I wonder what gives pubs such longevity?