It doesn’t seem long since I did News from the Abbey Shopping Centre but …
A planning application has appeared on the front of one of the large new units in the Abbey Shopping Centre to say that New Look will be moving there from their smaller shop. There have been other approaches for the large new stores but the Abbey Shopping Centre management are holding out for a couple of prestigious retailers for the two larger stores.
A new bakery has opened. Parsons are a family business with over 30 outlets in the South West, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
Both kiosks have been occupied for a while now, one by Hattons Gold, and the other by the Phone Box. Timpsons also re-opened quite some time ago. The fire only closed them for a short while.
The Community Shop have a display of volunteering opportunities including a side window dedicated to pictures of Abingdon Sea Cadets. The community shop will be open from 11:30 to 14:30 on Friday for anybody interested in volunteering. That is the same day as the Farmers Market.
The Community Shop is booked for most weeks between now and November, next week Mind are using it and after that we have Children’s Centres, Heritage Photo Display, Woodcarvers, Carbon Cutters, Camera Club Photo Competition winners…… so worth having a look any time you are in town.
Hopefully Wetherspoons new pub will bring some life back – the whole place has gone seriously downhill recently and the pubs get worse and worse as time goes by