During the daylight an artist was seen working on a number of charcoal sketches.
When evening arrived a group of lighting engineers took over. Watched by the museum curator, the architect and project team from Ridge and Partners, the lighting engineers tried out various positions under the County Hall …
Nothing too fancy. Just up lights trying to arrive at the best way of showing the museum exterior and undercroft at night.
All part of the impending closure and redevelopment project.
The museum curator apologised that the museum could not play such a big role in Heritage Day this year but the closure is now so close.
I was there about 19:30 and had a chat with them. In fact, one of them lives in Abingdon. He was complimentary about the hanging Christmas lights in the windows, which, of course, won’t be up this year. They are reporting through Ridge in the first instance.
Seems to me that the money from the Old Gaol sale should go to restoring the Museum/County Hall, rather than into the coffers (clutches) of the Vale, where it is so likely to be spent (frittered) away on half-baked projects such as ABITS, that do NOTHING to the benefit of Abingdon!!!
The artist also does caricatures on the side…
In fact, the Vale has promised £300K towards the project, the same as the county council. As the money from the Old Gaol is a capital receipt, it can only be spent on capital projects and I can assure you it won’t be frittered away.
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