If you move or change one letter the closest place name to ‘Abingdon’ is ‘Abington‘.
Places in England with the name Abington are:
1) The villages of Great and Little Abington in Cambridgeshire
2) The Abington district of Northampton
Change two letters and you get ‘abandon‘ as in ‘Abandon Ship.’
To see other entries to the City Daily Photo theme day of ‘Abandoned’ please look here .. http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.no/2016/09/october-2016-theme-day-gallery-abandoned.html
That last photograph is a ‘cracker’.
‘A picture tells a thousand words’ … we’ve just got to hope that this one’s not an obituary.
Abandon hope..all ye who enter here….
Sums up Abingdon lately…..no hope for the town. Not qith the present incumbents in charge.
A nice bit of Photoshop, well done!
No Cranbourne-on-Thames sign though 🙁
Talking of abandoned… never seen this before http://www.ukurbex.com/index.php?/topic/447-raf-abingdon-atc-tower-2009/
Photo 2 is good…the BID team was right, we might stand a chance in ‘Best High St” awards if that’s the competition!
clever take on the theme!
Beautiful entrance into Abingdon with the river etc with a filthy sign !!!! Why not clean it VHDC !!!!! NO PRIDE !!! ( I have messaged them but no one is again interested ) Might need to go out with my mop and bucket !!
Guy, there is free wi-fi, so don’t be so pessimistic.
On old maps (Speed and the like), our town is marked as “Abington.” Sometimes “Abbington”.
On the theme of dirty signs/ weeds etc I see the monk on the Tesco roundabout is gradually disappearing into the undergrowth
There a fair bit of weeding that needs to be done AT The Veil, before it’s done BY The Veil…Simon…