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.
Advance warning signs have appeared round the town centre over the last 24 hours. The top of East St. Helen Street will be CLOSED for two weeks in the middle of August.
The spelling looks perfect to me – apart from the spelling of Lombard Street.