The new Local Stop, on Ock Street, opened today – where one of the Thresher group’s off licences used to be.
For the first couple of weeks they will be open 10am-11pm, but plan to open from 7am in a couple of weeks time.
With the annual Michaelmas Street Fair coming tomorrow they could have a very busy start up.
On a wet afternoon there was a good turn out for this service. The Rector Charles Miller got stuck in M40 motorway traffic and arrived a little late so the curate filled in.
Highlights..
Mr Russel Hobby gave a family tribute
The Choir of St Nics school sang ‘Love me Tender’. Pat liked Elvis and taught at St Nics and would have loved this.
Nigel Warner, town clerk, gave a civic tribute
Then there were tea and cakes in the side aisle.
Thankyou to Mike Bloom for this ‘exciting snap‘ of committee members Noeleen Farrell & Martin Johnson preparing to introduce the first film in the 2010/2011 ABCD Film Society program … The film was Four Lions …
‘Four Lions is a darkly comic tale of a group of inept Jihadi suicide bombers … with the potential to cause shock, incongruity, belly laughs, … and offence.’
For full information about the other 20+ films in the ABCD program go to www.abfilms.org.uk .
Nothing new to say about the Old Gaol in this monthly blog update, but there are pictures of two holes. The first part of the Old Gaol development will involve building some of the superstructure for the underground carpark.
What probably interests people more than underground carparks, are the planned public facilities. I don’t know how up to date the Cranbourne Homes website is, but interestingly it does say…
“Coming Soon: Old Gaol, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
New Homes, Restaurants, Shops and Community Facilities Centered around the Conversion of the Historical Old Gaol, Associated Buildings and Twickenham House on the Banks of the River Thames in Abingdon On Thames. First Phase Expected Release Autumn 2011.”
I thought they had given up the idea of shops and restaurants and planned just restaurants, but that was before Ask came to town, so maybe shops are back in the plan.