On Heritage Day (Sat 11th September this year) we usually try to organise a competition. Two years ago there was ‘find an unusual object in shop window’. Last year it was a quiz. This year it is ‘Shops – Past and Present’.
These pictures of the Chinese Kitchen – Past and Present, come from The Judy Thomas and Elizabeth Drury book Abingdon – Past and Present. The pictures show the building as it was in 1895 – as the Rising Sun Inn, and the pagoda like replacement that must have shocked people when it first appeared, but which now makes a perfect setting for the Chinese Kitchen.
The competition will be to find as many past and present shops as you can and say what they once were and are now.
