Beneath the Trinity steeple

there was a triple golden wedding celebration – three couples from Trinity celebrating their golden wedding anniversaries together. The picture is of tea on the lawn afterwards.

Rev. Malcolm Atherton returned to conduct the celebration service . He is a much missed former minister who left Abingdon about four years ago to look after three churches in Warrington, Cheshire.

This is not really Malcolm’s removal lorry but one I chanced to see yesterday. If it had been Malcolm’s, it would have been full of water pumps, pond liners, and tanks brimming with Carp.

They pulled down the corrugated chapel of rest at the back of the funeral directors. A new brick one has been built as an extension to the main building. The vacated land is being used for housing.

Builders vans are also there to put up scaffolding and green nets for the Tomkins Almshouses over the road.

There has been an awful lot of froth floating downstream from Oxford.

The froth did not stop the enjoyment of the crowds on the Abingdon Riviera (but may have neutered some unsuspecting fish).

I wondered how they were going to remove the crane from behind the Co-op: well

Kingerlee, the construction company, got an even bigger crane

and lifted the crane a part at a time. This is the biggest most-spectacular part.

They slowly moved it round, and lowered it carefully onto the back of lorry – less care and these pictures could have been far more spectacular.

One big question now remains – why have they bricked up all the shop windows.