Smarts Fish & Chips have been closed for most of August, for re-decoration, and the youngest member of the backstreet household is missing her regular dose of Smarts Cheese and Chips.

Also I see that Ladbrokes, a well known betting firm, want to take over the Venue. The Venue has been closed since the owner emigrated a few months back.

For a while not much has changed to the front. But now the pavement is getting laid

and the front looks more like a shop front with the false window frames, pillars, and the sign frame.

I see that the Co-op have applied for an Off Licence Sales Licence covering Monday to Sunday 07:00 – 22:00. So we could be spoilt for choice soon with Londis and the Co-op.

Next week on the Market Place will be the French Market. The week after that is Heritage Day. And today there were various things:

Fire Engines – Fire Safety Awareness

Police Cars – Speed Awareness

4X4s – promoting the Abingdon 4X4 festival at Dalton Barracks on 27th and 28th of September. Fox FM were also with them on behalf of their charity – Help An Oxfordshire Child.

And community stalls were there in the sunshine like this one from Abingdon Netball raising money for new kits. There was also a WRVS stall . WRVS organise the Abingdon Darby and Joan Club – an elderly peoples welfare club .

Marshall Galpin used to be a big name in Abingdon.

It looks now however as though Marshall Galpin Solicitors, in West Saint Helen Street, have ‘merged’ with Withy King.

‘Withy King is one of the leading and largest law firms in the South West, with five offices in Bath, throughout Wiltshire and London.‘

So now it is Withy King Incorporating Marshall Galpin.