Abingdon Pubs For Sale

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Pubs Closing
One thing is clear, The Fitzharris Arms has been already sold to Tesco, who plan to turn it into a Supermarket. The Herald had the ‘Fury over Pub Sale to Tesco‘ story this morning.
Pubs Closing
The Fitz was built in 1952 along with the surrounding houses.  So it serves a large area with no other nearby pubs.  Local people – many of them elderly – depend on their local pub for their social lives.  A social group of elderly residents meets every two weeks at the Fitz, and their Christmas Party was planned for the day the pub is to close.
Pubs Closing

Also worth noting is that  Tesco own the One Stop supermarket just down the Wootton Road.  So are they planning to have two shops so close together? They did buy the Fox and Hounds pub on the Abingdon Road in Oxford and it has remained derelict since 2007.

Pubs Closing
A For Sale sign has also appeared over another Greene King pub in the town centre: The Plough.
Pubs Closing
The Plough re-opened in July after being closed from the start of the year.

Those two pubs may be just the start. There are rumours of other Greene King pubs being sold off.

(Greene King got a majority stake in the Abingdon based Morland Brewery, and all it’s pubs, in 1999. )

Return from Afghanistan Medal Parade

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Freedom and Medal Ceremony
Around 320 soldiers from the 12th Logistic Support Regiment based in Dalton Barracks, Abingdon held a medal parade in Abingdon to mark the return of all elements of the Regiment from Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan.
Freedom and Medal Ceremony
Mr Tim Stevenson, the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, gave out medals and made a short address.
Freedom and Medal Ceremony
The troops then marched through the town centre led by the Band of the Logistics Corps before attending a church service at St Helens.

Well Being – 2010

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Well Being Fayre
I would never have got to the Well Being Centre’s Christmas Fayre if it had not been for Dr Les Clyne handing out leaflets in town to remind people it was on.
Well Being Fayre
There are a number of community groups use the Well Being Centre on Audlett Drive, although its main purpose is as a day centre and help centre for elderly people.

When you walk in through the main entrance – round the back where the white social service vans are parked – there is some 2010 artwork by the ceramics group who have a workshop at the centre.