Next door to John Mason School is Champion House…
It was owned by Oxfordshire County Council Social Services – Caring Countywide.
It is featured on a Friends of Abingdon display at the Community Shop along with other buildings like the Ox pub that are in danger of being redeveloped.
The community shop has reopened for a new run. For the first week there are exhibitions by The MG Car Club, Friends of Abingdon, and Abingdon Archaelogical and Historical Society. They will run until Heritage Weekend, which begins on Saturday 10th September, and then another community group or groups will take over – just like it used to be.
The shop has moved back to where Adams used to be. The other temporary community shop, over the other side of Bury Street, still has the consultation window display about changes to Abingdon town centre. There will be an extra open day on Saturday 10 September from 10:00am – 3:00pm to air your views on that. So that day will be a chance to see the town’s heritage and influence its future – future grows out of the past.
I was handing out heritage leaflets today, outside the shop, and met up with fellow Abingdon bloggers … Can I Walk Mummy? and Read it Daddy .
By the way if you haven’t seen the heritage leaflet, there are lots in the community shop, and it can be viewed here.
Outdoor Traders are launching Columbia’s new OutDry range and are inviting anyone to go along to the store on the Sat 3rd & Sun 4th of September to get a free pair of Columbia OutDry shoes worth £110 with any Columbia OutDry footwear purchase.
They even had a stall on the Market Place today demonstrating the products
and gave us snow in September.
Gorgeous day. Too good to be in doors. I see most of the scaffolding remains. It looks as if just the lift quarter is being removed, so my announcement two days ago was a little premature.
I caught this chap walking down the precinct today in a wet suit. He will be swimming the channel next Thursday for the charity Footsteps, who have worked miracles with his second son – born with severe cerebral palsy. The website is www.swiminasuit.com .
Tomorrow I will be having my last weekly swim in the outdoor pool of the season. It closes after Sunday. Most of the time the water has been warm despite the cool summer. Only twice did it feel cold in the water. Often there have just been the three lifeguards watching just me, or a small group, so despite free swimming for under 16s and a much better service I don’t think they did that well. It is so weather dependent.