Abingdon Town Centre remains mostly quiet in the evenings. Pubs and restaurants are closed for consumption on the premises
Food and non-alcoholic drinks can be bought on a takeaway basis (between 5am and 11pm). Food and drink (including alcohol if the license allows) can also be delivered.
The government have announced a slow roadmap to reopening. They say this is possible because of the success of the vaccination programme; and how the public have obeyed the law and stayed at home to help suppress COVID-19.
The roadmap includes a number of steps. As part of Step 2 hospitality venues will be allowed to serve people outdoors from 12th April. Then as part of Step 3 indoor hospitality will be allowed no earlier than 17th May. Step 3 includes cinemas.
There are bright lights at St Helen’s Wharf. This evening they included the flashing lights of a police car. I hear that the police went from door to door investigating a disturbance.
As ever, you offer us some wonderful photographs.
I have a book, which once belonged to my mother and was a wedding, called London by Night. It is shows a series of wonderful black and white images of pre-war London taken by Francis Sandwith, ARPS. Towns and cities become quite different when the crowds have gone home.
and the first phot also proves, if proof were needed, that there is not in fact any issue with traffic in Abingdon.
Should have written “wedding present”…
I do not recall Abingdon having a huge amount of night life even a few years ago.
I think the last time I went out, Charters and Stickies were still going strong?
Stickies was the ground zero of covid; where the virus first jumped from animal to human. Let’s pretend that place never happened.