Five walks in the rain

Five Walks in the rain
There were five Heritage Walks setting of from Abingdon Market Place at 11 am on Sunday.
* Abingdon’s Boundary Walk
* The Rivers of Abingdon
* Heritage Art about Abingdon
* Abingdon’s Industrial Past
* Abingdon’s Blue Plaques

The rain began at 11 am at the same time as the walks. The rain was sometimes heavy and lasted for about two hours. But despite that about sixty people took part.

This was the first time for the blue plaques walk which covered four blue plaques:
Arthur Preston (historian and politician at Park Cresent),
John Alder (generous lottery winner at Stert Street),
Cecil Kimber (MG manager at The Boundary House),
and Daniel Turner (Baptist Minister and hymn writer at 35 Ock Street).
Five Walks in the rain
In the British Heart Foundation charity shop all the umbrellas in the store-area were brought down to sell to anybody who needed one.
Five Walks in the rain
At the temporary community shop the exhibition had over 600 visitors on Saturday. We all love studying the aerial photographs from 100 years ago to see what has changed and get into discussion with strangers.
Five Walks in the rain
Sunday was quieter with about 100 visitors. At the end the railway club put their banner in the window to attract people to their upcoming exhibition at Abingdon College.

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