There was a Nostalgia Bus outside St Helens Church yesterday afternoon – hired for a wedding. It was build in 1966.
In 1968, production of this particular Leyland Titan PD3 model ceased in Britain, but was restarted and adapted by Ashok Leyland in India, and carried on for many years. Ashok Leyland continue to make buses from Chennai which took as their engineering start point the Leyland Titan PD3, but have gone some way beyond. I see on wikipedia that they are now developing the iBus.
I came back to Abingdon to find a group of young people on the Market Place with placards saying “Tesco… Every Little Hurts.”
There was also a protest outside the old Ox Pub at 2pm. Tesco already has a fairly dominant share of the Abingdon retail market. The Ox would become the third Tesco outlet.
Thanks to the Erin Bardwell Collective, who played at The Yeah Baby Free Rock Festival, for the soundtrack on this, the July 2011 slideshow. I’m off to Yorkshire for our summer holidays so this post will probably be the last for a week.
Recently a Tesco Express opened in what was the Fitzharris Arms – very close to an existing convenience store called The One Stop.
The Ox pub is going the same way – taking on the Tesco colours – and right next door to another convenience store called Best One.