South East Workwear have expanded their design, embroidery and print studios, taking over space from Remade Guitars.
Remade Guitars have relocated to Dolgellau, but will be back with a monthly pop-up repair service in Glasshouse Studios in Cumnor.
Opened in 1994, South East Workwear specialise in workwear and school uniforms, and designs on clothes for business or personal use.
I watched people bring their Christmas trees to the town council staff on the Market Place today. One staff member would snip off any awkward branches, and the other would plunge the tree into a hopper.
From out of the shredder, debris was blasted into a pile of wood chip and needles in the back of the council truck. It had been reduced back to basics which could be recycled as mulch.
There were others like me who stopped to watch, for a minute or two, what has become an annual ritual in Abingdon on Thames.
This year Christmas Tree recycling coincided with Twelfth Night – which is either the 5th or 6th of January, depending where you start counting from.
This week there is an article in the Abingdon Herald saying that Aldi will be coming to the Fariracres Retail Park if they can get planning permission.
Presumably that will be in the unit vacated by Beales last year.
Over the road holes have been drilled for the pilings for the redevelopment of the Oxford Abingdon Hotel as a Hilton.
Aldi is a global chain of over 10,000 supermarkets based in Germany.
Hilton is a global chain of over 570 hotels and resorts based in the USA.
At lunchtime on New Years Day there was dancing in the undercroft of the County Hall in Abingdon. The Old Speckled Hen Morris dancers,
and the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were dancing.
The old year had died on December 31st, and January 1st was a new chance to dance and bring life to the new year. There was more dancing at the Broad Face and music for most of the afternoon.