Last night workmen were prodding with their feet the ground where a softening, and small hole, had developed on St Helen’s Wharf. It is covered over now awaiting repair.
There is now no parking by the Anchor Inn.
I am often suprised at this point by traffic coming the wrong way over the iron bridge – which is intended to be one way.
I have been looking back at umbrella pictures and found lots in June 2012, the month of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
1. An audience enjoy a performance by Larkmead School choir on Abingdon Market Place.
2. A group from St Helens Church enjoy the Jubilee street party.
3. Umbrellas being held Abingdon style during the Jubilee bun throwing – to catch the buns.
For more Umbrella pictures go to City Daily Photo February Theme Day.
A NHS Children’s clinic now occupies part of the Clock House, which when opened in 1882 was home to a Conservative Working Mens Club. Three reliefs of Tory Grandees and a magnificent window adorn the front. It is good to see repairs now taking place before the rot sets in.
For more information on the reliefs try John’s Miscellany which he did for the blog in January 2010. I and maybe others in Abingdon are is still hoping there will be a 2nd John’s Miscellany.
One of our North Abingdon correspondents has found a web page showing the level of the River Thames at Abingdon Lock – rising steadily again.
There was a rainbow over the Upper Reaches, on Sunday, during one of a number of showers.
The night before, and after, there was heavy rain. Any remaining snow has been washed away, and this evening the Ock Valley path is already under a few inches of water again.
Another rainbow was visible, on Sunday, over the road beyond Lodge Hill, currently closed by a landslide.
That is halfway between Oxford and Abingdon.
It is not a way we normally walk but there is the opportunity now that it is almost car free.