The air has cooled down since the thunder and hail storms of Wednesday afternoon.
I went for an evening walk at 8:20 pm and found some street lights were already on; cars already had their lights on.
At St Helen’s Wharf, Plain Trees shade the Victorian-style street lamps, and as a result they are fooled into turning on even earlier.
Thankyou to Rachel at BlueDoor (now in Southampton) for sending me a link to a piece called Don’t call Abingdon ordinary. It is about Abingdon-on-Thames – a town that has been continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and has innovated to survive. The article is written by a Historian on a website called Unherd. Their mission is ‘to push back against the herd mentality with new and bold thinking’
P.S. Greg and Rachel used to run BlueDoor Lettings in Stert Street and were very active in Abingdon town life. They had an amusing blog – the confessions of a letting agent. Greg was the front man, and is seen here with Mike Moon in 2011 at a local event.
There’s a current lack of decent picure postcards of Abingdon and it’s a shame that some of your photographs aren’t available in that form backstreeter.
Martin Wackenier has some wonderful postcards which he has been selling throughout lockdown. I think he is at the Monday markets, but if not he is easy to find online.
Black and white can be so evocative – great photos!