The current exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum is a fun one, featuring the cartoons of Geoff Dunbar, a local artist and animator who has received national acclaim, including a BAFTA. The exhibition includes a video about his work and his fascinating recollections of Abingdon.

The video helps to explain some of the cartoons, such as the one of the joke shop. The Artist tells of a second-hand clothes shop in Stert Street, which during the summer holidays, was transformed into a joke shop, and which became a firework shop with Guy Fawkes in the window before November 5th.

The exhibition also features cartoons of present-day Abingdon, and the fun is to see how many caricatures you can recognise. The Artist sez, ‘any resemblance to any person living or otherwise, is purely coincidental…’

Some of the coincidental persons were invited to the opening of the exhibition on October 7th. Others staffed it. The exhibition runs until December 23rd.

Abingdon County Hall Museum is run by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council.