A few years ago there used to be a pop band called Wet Wet Wet. This building had three cards slotted in three different front facing windows. Each one looked like the word Wet to me. I finally realised many years after that it said “Net Net Net” not “Wet Wet Wet”.

More recently local bands played here in a regular event: the Abingdon battle of the bands. They played against each other to see which is best by popular acclaim. This event seemed very popular, although I never went myself.

There is also this grotto overgrown with ivy. It is a 19th Century Folley. On developing the Net it was used to hold an oil tank.

From the outside this unassuming shop at the top of Bath Street looks like a toy shop with little trinkets and prizes in the window, but go inside and you will be see banks of gaming machines.

Its between Honeyz the Bangladeshi /Indian restuarant and Smarts Fish and Chip shop,

dogbins outnumber standard rubbish bins in the parks and country walks around Abingdon. The dogbins come in one of two colours: red ones from the Town Council,

and green ones from the district council; but underneath the livery they have the same design. There is a foot peddle to lift the lid, and a handle to attach a doglead.

The district council also stick little notices on posts to say that there are fines for people not clearing dog mess – maximum £1000.

This was the pine shop on High Street, but now it has reopened as a newsagent and convenience foodstore. For a few weeks it has had a rather tatty window awaiting this major refit. The new owner – who previously ran the newsagent Kelvin Lucy – has seen a gap in the food and grocery market on the south side of town, while the Co-op development is delayed…