Abingdon Boys School (A.B.S) are a Japanese rock band named after the school in Abingdon where the English rock band Radiohead started.

The real school – pictured above – is simply called ‘Abingdon School’. Before that it was ‘Abingdon Grammar School’, and before that ‘Roysse’s Grammar School’. It is still called Roysse’s by some Abingdonians.

Good to see such tributes from the highly fashionable Japanese culture which brought us manga (comics). It doesn’t look like they got their uniforms from the Abingdon School shop though.

Modern Music was taken over by Dawsons a couple of years ago.

The CD section, and sheet music sections were larger when it was Modern Music. But more space has been devoted to instruments since Dawsons took over.

Dawsons started selling off the CDs a couple of weeks back, and are now selling off the instruments.

Above Modern Music many Abingdon children learned to play the drums, guitar, and keyboard. It used to be a quite an exciting climb, up the metal fire escape from the Market Place Carpark.

A few things are on next weekend in Abingdon. This is Pat L, publicising the events.

1. French Market – next Friday and Saturday (7th-8th Sept)
2. Heritage Day – next Saturday (8th Sept) – various old houses and buildings open
3. Fun in The Parks – next Sunday (9th Sept) – Abbey Park from 2 – 4 P.M
4. Walk the 1556 Bounds – next Sunday (9th Sept) – 11.30

There were lots of people in town this morning. Hopefully there will be even more next weekend.