Organised  by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, the Winter Weather Exhibitions will give you information from experts about protecting your home this winter whether it brings flooding, snow or severe cold.

There are two such exhibitions: 6th January at Long Furlong Community Centre and 8th January 2015 at Preston Road Community Centre. Both run from 5.30pm to 8.00pm.

In town this morning there was also a reminder that the Town Council will recycle your Christmas Tree next Saturday on the Market Place.

The library was open and a good place to get dry, on what was a very wet morning.

I read in the Herald from 100 years ago, that there had been 6 inches of rain in December 1914 and there were floods at the start of January 1915. The removal of the canal bridge near the Drayton Road and inadequate drainage led to Tithe Farmhouse being badly flooded. The overflow of water from the River Ock, where it meets the Thames, meant the lawns of the Long Alley Almshouses were under water, and water had been forced up through the floor of the Anchor Inn. But Thames Conservancy were praised for managing the floods much better than 1894, twenty years before.

The Abingdon Walks website has postcards of The Great Abingdon Flood of 1894.