This evening at the Guildhall George Haslam’s big band Swing Time were playing music from the fifties to help raise money for the Abingdon Arts Festival.
Next Saturday, the Cross Keys are going Back to the Eighties.
Alongside, one football fixture from 2011 would look very strange to anybody from the fifties or eighties… Manchester United V Crawley Town in the 5th round of the FA Cup. Crawley are a non league team who have invested lots of money to get the best non league players. Their pay cheque from this game could well ensure they do not loose out.
Back To The Seventies!
Local politicians and planners have vowed to maintain Abingdon’s traffic system as giridlocked as it was before the Abingdon Bypass was opened in the 1970s and have declared an annual (February 29th), ‘Loony Pants Day’. A local spokesperson, Doris Spokesperson, said, off the record, that Abingdon wanted to reafirm traditional town values and that the local Morris sides would be able to do complete sets in the High Street without inconveniencing the traffic, which would be unable to move in any case.