Two of Abingdon’s Turkish Barbers have had a re-style – possibly to show that they are run by close relations. Both Re-style …
and EFES, the original Abingdon Turkish Barber, now have very similar liveries.
Bath Street, Abingdon town centre – Saturday 8 July: 10:00 – 15:00
This weekend you will find:
Vintage stalls
Artisan craft stalls
Activities for kids
Live music
Sizzling street food
Vintage and classic cars in the Marketplace
For more information visit http://www.rural-events.co.uk/abingdon.php
John Mason School has taken on a whole new venture this year – a production of Henry Purcell’s 1689 opera, Dido and Aeneas. The dedicated cast of 20 students has been working hard since the spring to bring you Purcell’s wonderful story of Dido.
It tells the tale of the Queen of Carthage, Dido, and the Trojan prince, Aeneas. When Aeneas and his crew become shipwrecked in Carthage, he and the Queen fall in love. The path of true love does not run smoothly as some witches plot Dido’s destruction.
The beautiful music will be performed by JMS musicians, and performances will be in the Amey Theatre at Abingdon school on 12th and 13th July.
Tickets are £4 / £3 and are available from Students Services at John Mason School or by calling 01235 524664.
The display team from the Abingdon Dog Training club were at Culham Fete on Saturday and gave obedience demonstrations in the main arena.
The Abingdon Dog Training club has been going since 1975, and meets on Sunday evenings at Preston Road Community Centre. They have puppy foundation courses, then basic obedience training, followed by bronze, silver and gold award classes.
At the Culham Fete last Saturday, the Save Culham Green Belt group had a stall.
South Oxfordshire District Council are looking where to put some more houses in their local plan, and are considering the new option of putting 3,500 on the Green Belt near Culham. It might even finance a bridge over the River Thames.
The red areas on their map shows areas of new housing. If the scheme did make it into the local plan then the development would dwarf those in North Abingdon. They told me that 3500 houses would mean 8,000 to 10,000 people and 2000+ cars. The Culham population was 453 in the 2011 Census.
The green circle bottom left is a small part of the new reservoir being proposed again. Thames Water did a presentation on the reservoir proposal at Trinity Church two weeks ago. Not a lot of people knew that or they would have gone. I was told there were as many people doing the presentation as in the audience.