I walked by Trinity Church and saw a funeral was in progress. A Scottish piper was waiting outside.
In the Albert Park the leaves were golden.
They look even better when the sun is shining.
On the way back, the piper was still waiting, and I saw that 6 cars in Conduit Road had tickets for parking on the single yellow line. The new civil parking enforcement is catching people out, even funeral goers – which seems a bit sad.
Today road painters have been repainting a lot of single and double yellow lines in the town centre. The lines need to be clear if they are to be enforced.
There were a few cars parked on single and double yellow lines and the road painters could not get all the lines done. They said they would return to do the rest another day.
16 November is the Feast of St Edmund of Abingdon. He is the first known Master of Arts of the Univeristy of Oxford and was later Archbishop of Canterbury.
If ever there were a way to finally kill off an already struggling high-street or town centre; stricter parking enforcement is the way to do it. Well done everyone!
So let everyone just park where they won’t to save a few doomed shops shall we.
Even with the Charter largely closed there is plenty of public parking in and around Abingdon town centre: I’ve never failed to find a legal space in 17 years
theres no shortage of legal parking, i never struggle.
Maybe they will stop vans and other vehicles without a Blue Badge from parking where they shouldn’t.
Maybe the funeral directors can sort something out with the Council for very short term permission to park in these circumstances.
Well then, in that case everything is going to be A-OK! 👍
Sorry PPJS, St Edmund of Abingdon was the first Doctor of Divinity at Oxford University.
Monica: He certainly was a DD, but he was the first (recorded) MA. St Edmund’s Hall (where he taught) was named after him. It was the MA that qualified him to teach.