Good waterfront – no tourist sign

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Fine Waterfront
John took these on Monday, arriving by Salters’ Steamer from Wallingford. He said “Who can doubt that we have one of the finest waterfronts in Britain.?”
Fine Water Front
Still he says “the A34 points passers-by to Millets Farm instead….”

It is about a year since John last mentioned the lack of a brown tourist sign from the A34. I know far cleverer people than me have tried and been told that historically it was easy to get brown tourists signs but nowadays there are so many criteria to fulfill – it is not easy to get a new one.

Maybe to get such things done you have to stop listening to reason.

Green Again

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Grass Green Again
The other impression that came to me on returning to Abingdon was that the lawn was green again, as was the grass in front of Queen Victoria in the Abbey Grounds where the grass had looked parched back in June.

(The Abbey Grounds have also retained a Green Flag award for the second year.)

Bath Street – Major Resurfacing

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Bath Street - Major Roadworks
The second thing different about Abingdon when we got back off holiday was that we were diverted away from Bath Street round Spring Road. Bath Street is in the middle of a two week major resurfacing.

The roads in Abingdon may have once all had such an unfinished  look to them. That would have been back in the days when you could have ridden in on a coach and horses to the inn opposite.

Trial Brews

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Loose Canon
In the Brewery Tap pub, barrels with Morland, Abingdon can still be seen in the back room. The Brewery Tap was at the gateway of  the large Abingdon Morland brewery – now taken over and part of Greene King with its brewery in Suffolk.

Loose Canon
The Brewery Tap is the pub where you can now try out a new Abingdon beer – brewed in a much smaller brewery on Suffolk Way, off the Drayton Road in Abingdon. There is Abingdon Bridge trial brew 2 and trial brew 1 on offer.
Loose Canon
It is a matter of taste which you will prefer.
Loose Canon
Run by Will Laithwaite, Loose Cannon is the name of the new Abingdon brewery. Laithwaite is a name already well known in wine circles. Let us hope it will soon become a name renowned  for beers as well.