The charges start at 50p for 1 hour, 90p for 2 hours, and £1.70 for 3 hours. This is the only car park that charges on Sunday currently, being near the riverside park, with its entertainments and play equipment.

Here we are on the forecourt of the Tesco petrol station at about 3:40 this afternoon. The store closes at 4:00 pm, (British Sunday trading laws), and it is getting busy at the petrol station.

Sunday used to be such a quiet day before the Sunday Trading laws allowed 10-4 Sunday trading. I remember coming down to use the large Tesco carpark to practise roller blading on a Sunday afternoon, and there would be nobody around. Try it now in this 450th year of the Abingdon Charter and most likely I’d end up as a supermarket-trolley sandwhich….

This old building at the top of Conduit Road is at the south east corner of Albert Park. It is far older than the victorian park, and the large victorian houses that surround the park. In the early 19th century it stood in a large field named Conduit field. Some small springs from the field were tapped and the water collected here in what was a forerunner of our huge modern resrvoirs. It housed a cistern where clean water could be stored, and then piped down a conduit to the people of Ock Street. Conduit House is probably much older than Abingdon’s charter being mentioned in the Amyce town survey of 1554, and may have been built by the monks of the Abbey.

This is a shop to go into. You are surrounded by warm aromas: herbal remedies, fresh bread, spices. There are pulses and beans in jars; and shelves crammed with different herbal remedies, health foods, preseves, pickles, organic wines… It Is just to be found at 17 West St Helen Street AND NOWHERE ELSE.