Michael Harrison has a Bibliography of Abingdon on the internet. It lists a huge number of books and articles about Abingdon. The list can be found at www.stertstream.net/bib2.htm. It contains the standard works on Abingdon that you might find in the local studies section at Abingon Library. It also contains many wonderful pieces you would be very lucky to find anywhere, such as ‘The claret ran out’ and ‘Dogs stolen. Stolen out of a yard belonging to Mr. Benjamin Tomkins, in the Ock-Street, in Abingdon Berks, on Friday night the 15th of this instant, two large pointing dogs, … Topper: … and … Pompey. Tomkins, B. (1768).’
Michael also wrote a booklet to be found in the library that tells the history of his own house right back to the time of Abingdon Abbey. It is one of the oldest houses in Abingdon, and only just survived demolition on a couple of occasions. You can also read about the ups an downs of the house at www.stertstream.net/hist.htm
Superb article and links – Thanks for posting Backstreeter.
Very interesting (!) as usual. Thank you.
Unfortunately the link didn’t work as it gets blocked by my ‘child safe’ internet security…. Am i missing anything exciting?
Me too, blocked website. First time that has happened. Virgin is the web provider.
Me too user… I think we’re missing out!
Link fine for me. And very interesting too. Must be an ISP quirk.
Daniel and User_less try searching for a free proxy server in Google, then paste the URL http://www.stertstream.net/hist.htm
into that. If your ISP has proxies banned you’ll be no further forward but it’s worth a try.