Fantasy – Gothic – Steampunk – Sci-Fi shop, called Clockwork Dragon, opens in Abingdon

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Clockwork Dragon
A New shop, called Clockwork Dragon, opened this morning where the Abingdon Shoe Shop once was, on Bath Street.
Clockwork Dragon
The Mayor of Abingdon, Cllr Helen Pighills, cut the ribbon to open the shop officially at 11am.
Clockwork Dragon
Peter, sporting the latest in Steampunk ‘Victorian’ fashion, has previously traded on markets, selling Fantasy, Gothic, Steampunk, and Sci-Fi products. A shop, in his home town of Abingdon, is the next step up.

Electric Traffic Lights – One Hundred and One Years On

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Electric Traffic Lights
Google have an animation, today, to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the first electric traffic lights.
Electric Traffic Lights
101 years on, resurfacing continues on Drayton Road in Abindgon between 10pm and 6am, and Oxfordshire County Council has asked the contractor to put in electric traffic lights to allow two way traffic at St Helen’s Wharf –

after the anarchy of the weekend when people were asked to drive a few miles round, and didn’t.

The six week deadline for Old Abbey House has gone

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six week deadline
The six week deadline notice, attached to the railings of Old Abbey House, has been removed in the last 24 hours.

It notified community groups that they had six weeks to register an interest in taking over the property. They would then have been given four and a half months to put together a bid.
six week deadline
If there have been no expressions of interest, Old Abbey House will be put back on the market by the Vale of White Horse District Council as ‘surplus to requirements’.
six week deadline
So could the gardens – an integral part of the Green Flag Award winning Abbey Gardens – one day be shut off from public access?