The Salvation Army Citadel on West St Helens Street, has a couple of mobility buggies parked outside. Accessibility is big business nowadays (what with the Disability Discrimination Act – DDA – and the increasingly elderly population).

Pavements in Abingdon vary. The worst ones cause problems for elderly people who have to look down each time they take a step.

But among the best and most level is the pavement laid when Marshall and Galpin Solicitors built their new offices in West St Helen Street.

Among other forms of litigation, Marshall and Galpin pursue accident claims and maybe even offences against the DDA act. With a pavement like that, they won’t be found wanting themselves.

They can’t be faulted for outlandish modern architecture either. It even has the traditional archway into the courtyard for stage coaches so loved in East and West St Helen Street.

(Marshal and Galpin have at no time offered me payment herein to promote their pavement. I broach all this notwithstanding without let or hindrance and duelly take exception to any contrary understanding bywithal. )