Tree in need of protection

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Michael sent this in …
Tree
You may have seen this leaning tree at the Stratton Way/Bath Street junction near the Park Road barrier, which I identify as a Metasequoia glyptostroboides or Dawn Redwood, a rare and primitive species introduced from China.
Tree
I reported it to the Town Council yesterday and somebody else has reported it to Oxfordshire County Council on June 6th (report no. 1049498)

I attach some pictures. You are welcome to include them in the Blog and if you are able to help arrange for it to be replanted and the supporting structure repaired, I should be very grateful. Otherwise it may well die or be vandalised.

Your Local Sports Store – Then and Now

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Your Local Sports Store
Here is Touchwood Sports in 1975.
Your Local Sports Store
Here is Abingdon Sports in 2017.

It is still a stockist for the leading names in quality sports equipment. However, Yonex is now far more evident than Dunlops and Slazenger.

In 1975 if you got a tennis racket it would most likely be Dunlops or Slazenger. They supplied the rackets that helped Bjorn Borg win Wimbledon several times, but then got into financial problems and were brought up by Sports Direct as part of its rapid expansion in 2004.

Your Local Carpet Store – Then and Now

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Your Local Carpet Store
Here is Mays Carpets in 1975 – the largest carpet showroom in Europe.
Your Local Carpet Store
Here is the same part of the Fairacres Retail Park in 2017. The units were re-developed a few years ago. Mays are now the managers of the retail park.

There is still a Carpet shop ‘Carpet Right’,  with BM the bargain store one side, and Dream Beds the other.

Postcard to Hiroshima

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Your Local Carpet Store
The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is today, August 6th, and the Abingdon Peace Group gathered, as they have done for many years now, for a 30-minute vigil at the War Memorial in Abingdon – at 8.15am this morning, the time the bomb was dropped.

They were joined by a man from Hiroshima, born their 42 years ago and now working at Harwell, who said it was very moving that people in Abingdon, so very far away, remember his home town in this way. That Hiroshima is a place where people work for peace and no more bombs, especially nuclear bombs.