A crew from Abingdon Rowing Club take a breather before rowing another punishing mile.
Two longboats pass closer than the width of the River Thames at this point would allow.
They are making room for all the anglers on the other bank where a match is in progress.
By midday St Helen’s Wharf has brightened. The rowers and anglers are gone. The golden leaves remind us that time, like a river, so quickly passes by.
Abingdon Country Market have found a new venue. They are now open on the 2nd Saturday of each month in the Abingdon Charter Day Centre.
The next date is Saturday 14th November 2015. Their cake and produce stall also takes part in the quarterly Local Excellence Market.
Country Markets have grown out of the markets established by the Women’s Institute in 1919, but have always been different from the WI in that men are fully part of the team.
They were renamed from WI Markets to Country Markets in 2004 but still operate under the same principals – selling local homemade baked goods, preserves, garden-grown fruit and vegetables. They also show case the skills and talents of local craftsmen and artists. .
The WI are celebrating their centenary this year, and the Oxfam window wishes them a Happy Birthday.
Abingdon Cancer Research UK are wearing 100 ‘Frocks’ in 1 month for Stand Up To Cancer.
In week 2 the fair came to town. There was also a rainy start to the week, brightening later.
The Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Helen Pighills, visited Cancer Research UK’s shop in Bury Street this morning, and is seen here with Clare.
There is also an ever changing display of frocks in the shop window.
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Safe PC Disposal have a warehouse and shop at 5 Suffolk Way in Abingdon, and have now opened a shop on the High Street in the town centre. They are just waiting for planning permission before putting up a proper sign, and are using one the A boards normally seen off the Drayton Road. They generally sell refurbished PCs and Laptops, and accessories.
Galaxy TecnO on East St Helen Street also do something similar, and have a larger range of technical accessories. So there is now a chance to shop around in Abingdon.