The work at 1-3 Ock Street is nearing completion. The building was once the Probation Office in Abingdon.
Kemp & Kemp have taken it on and have been restoring the building, sympathetically, to be their new offices.
They are to bury a time capsule under the floor to the building capturing ‘life in Abingdon today’ as well as telling the story of the building. Suggestions very welcome.
Outdoor gym equipment has appeared all the way round the Boxhill Recreation Ground. Some of it was still partly wrapped on Saturday – near the old Workhouse wall, that incidentally somebody was mending.
But some equipment was usable and the children playing football with St Edmunds Football Club had a go before their match kicked off.
Outdoor gyms have grown in popularity in recent years.
The first outdoor gym area in Abingdon was created about three years ago on the Ladygrove Meadow Play Area, near the Drayton Road bridge. Such gyms are free to use and don’t need membership.
Anybody wanting to walk along the Ock Valley walk will find that the path is still blocked. Water levels are down a long way down from a week ago, but protective barriers remain.
There are not only barriers on the Ock Valley Walk, and the Margaret Brown garden, but also on the viewing area on Wilsham Road, where a hole has appeared during the floods.
Today the United Service of the Church in Abingdon was held at Trinity Church. This is an annual celebration for the 14 member churches.
In the foyer, and round the church, were displays from a number of projects supported or closely connected with the Church in Abingdon, such as the Street Pastors.
Rev’d Richard Bittleston led a short service and also played piano. Richard will be leaving Trinity in the summer, at which point Trinity and All Saints will be getting a new joint minister. The number of ministers are being reduced in these days of declining church attendance in some of the more traditional churches.
The final hymn was to the hymn tune Abingdon. A recording from my phone can be heard here.