Spring Gardens Cemetery (formerly the New Cemetery) in Abingdon has a new area of marble vaults – each can contain up to two containers of cremated remains.
The area has been landscaped, and the new vaults are provided by The Columbarian Company whose company slogan is ” Bringing cemeteries and crematoria to life.”
Elsewhere in the cemetery catkins are out.
Life goes on.
The work at 1-3 Ock Street is nearing completion. The building was once the Probation Office in Abingdon.
Kemp & Kemp have taken it on and have been restoring the building, sympathetically, to be their new offices.
They are to bury a time capsule under the floor to the building capturing ‘life in Abingdon today’ as well as telling the story of the building. Suggestions very welcome.
Outdoor gym equipment has appeared all the way round the Boxhill Recreation Ground. Some of it was still partly wrapped on Saturday – near the old Workhouse wall, that incidentally somebody was mending.
But some equipment was usable and the children playing football with St Edmunds Football Club had a go before their match kicked off.
Outdoor gyms have grown in popularity in recent years.
The first outdoor gym area in Abingdon was created about three years ago on the Ladygrove Meadow Play Area, near the Drayton Road bridge. Such gyms are free to use and don’t need membership.
Anybody wanting to walk along the Ock Valley walk will find that the path is still blocked. Water levels are down a long way down from a week ago, but protective barriers remain.
There are not only barriers on the Ock Valley Walk, and the Margaret Brown garden, but also on the viewing area on Wilsham Road, where a hole has appeared during the floods.