Caravans and Scooters in Abingdon this weekend

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Caravans and Scooters
Abingdon-on-Thames Visitor and Community Information Centre has moved to Roysse Court.

There are lots of visitors this weekend in Abingdon. Most have come with caravans or with scooters and tents. I don’t know how many need to visit the centre to ask for information.
Caravans and Scooters
The caravans can be seen on the other side of the River Thames on the Cricket Field.
Caravans and Scooters
The scooters have come for the 2019 Oddballs Rally at Abingdon Rugby Club.
Caravans and Scooters
At the Oddballs Rally there are oddball stalls selling oddball parts. There are large white marquees where bands play oddball music which leads to a lot of oddball dancing and bouncing around.

I took this picture the morning after when there was a relaxed campsite feel with occasional announcements from the P.A. about buying raffle tickets. Money is raised for charity at the Oddball Rally. Some people were relaxing, others had gone off on their scooters, or walked into town by the River.

Underpass mural has been cleaned

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Underpass mural
Earlier this year there was graffiti on the Abingdon underpass mural which has now all been cleaned away or touched up.

Behind Henry VIII is Thomas Pentecost, the last Abbot of Abingdon, who with his twenty-four monks received pensions after surrendering the Abbey to the King. Unlike the Abbot of Reading who was imprisoned and executed for not being so obliging – who became a martyr.
Underpass mural
Facing them through the tunnel is the cleaned up St Edmund of Abingdon, and a picture of The Egyptian Vase coming to this town. I cannot remember what that story was all about.
Underpass mural
The mural starts with pre-history, runs down one wall, and then back along the other.

It end in modern times with mummers, morris dancing, and town crying.

Abingdon Broken Bike Rack

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Abingdon Broken Bike Rack
Yesterday, the Abingdon Herald and Abingdon Facebook group had pictures of a van crashed into a bike rack on Abingdon’s High Street. A tangle of bikes and a van could be seen from their pictures. Nobody was injured.

The damaged bike rack and one remaining bike has been cordoned off today.

Abingdon broken shop windows

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Abingdon Broken Windows
Abingdon Town Centre shops have had a spate of broken windows over the last few weeks. The vandalism looks random but keeps happening. Each time it is a big cost to businesses even after insurance.
Abingdon Broken Windows
Work has also begun renovating the charity shop in Bath Street destroyed by fire a couple of years ago.