This painting by Oswald Couldrey was done in the late 1930s and shows children coming out of Carswell School in Conduit Road (from a postcard Copyright Abingdon Town Council).

The school recently had £1 million spent on it to provide new classrooms, an ICT suite, and an all weather pitch (Carswell School is the only school in Abingdon without a grass playing field and so desparately needed this). As you can see the nursery area is very colourful. Oswald would have approved.