Monthly Archives: December 2015

The Serving Community Noticeboard at Trinity

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About ten years ago Trinity Church got a new mission statement: “Serving God, Serving Each Other, Serving Community”

The 3 notice boards at the back of the Welcome Area were given those same three titles.

Trinity Learning, which does work supporting schools, has taken over the middle board, and so now there is: Serving God, Children, and Serving Community.
Serving Community
In December 2015 posters on the ‘Serving Community’ board include:
* Health and Safety at work Act
Serving Community
* Scouts & Guides Christmas Post. (Last collection yesterday.)
* New Years Walk for Christmas Aid on January 1st.
* Volunteers required for Leonard Cheshire Disability Volunteers.
Serving Community
* Every year there is the opportunity to write cards to Prisoners of Conscience with details provided by Amnesty International.
Serving Community
* Friends of Abingdon are looking for a new Manager / Curator.
Serving Community
* Oxford Community Soup Kitchen need people to help Mrs Smith
* John Radcliffe League of Friends need helpers
* St Michael’s Church have a group in the new year studying the Psalms. (That one could be moved to the ‘Serving God’ noticeboard.)

1950s Abingdon – Mass X-Rays and Fizzy Lemonade

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1950s Abingdon
I saw in a 1950s Who’s Who of Abingdon that inhabitants of our town were once known as Abendonians.
1950s Abingdon
Here is a 1950s picture of Richard, now aged 65, beside the fountain in Roysse’s Court that was destroyed in 2015. What a shame!
1950s Abingdon
In the 1950s a shoe-fitting x-ray unit was a common shoe store device, and people were encouraged to go every 2 or 3 years to the mass X Ray vans that came to town to check for TB.
1950s Abingdon
Trinity Church had Chapel, Society and Poor Stewards. As I understand it chapel stewards helped look after the fabric of the building, society stewards looked after running church meetings and the needs of church members, and poor stewards helped look after the poor.

Somebody was telling me on Saturday of that same decade, and how they sipped Morland’s lemonade by the River at the Old Anchor Inn. They didn’t very much like the lemonade because it was too fizzy, but they did like watching the House Martins that nested under the eaves.

Christmas Craft Fair

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The Craft Market – postponed from last week – took place yesterday. Most of the stalls were able to make the rebooking at short notice. There was rain early on but it soon cleared.
Craft Fair Regulars
Break4Cake, with Christmas Stollen, and other continental cakes, was there.
Craft Fair Regulars
The Mayor of Abingdon was also visiting.
Craft Fair Regulars
There were also reindeer, but no sign of Father Christmas.

The Abingdon Lions have been taking him on a nightly journey round most of Abingdon. The journey will soon be complete. Then he will be allowed back home to prepare for his biggest night of the year.

Mayor of Abingdon’s Over 70s Party

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Over 70s Party
The Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Helen Pighills, hosted the annual Christmas Party for the over 70s yesterday at Preston Road Commnity Centre. (Thanks to her for the pictures from the Mayor of Abingdon’s Facebook Page.)
Over 70s Party
The Community Centre was being used in the morning by another community group, and so there was only an hour and a half to get it all ready. Elves from the Nationwide Building Society came along to help. As did councillors, firefighters, and PCSOs.
Over 70s Party
Entertainment included a Christmas sing-along, bingo, and a performance of the traditional Mummer’s play. That play can also be seen in a number of Abingdon pubs on 22nd December
Over 70s Party
If you missed the party meal, and are over 70, then there will be another chance next year.