Abingdon Cancer Research UK are wearing 100 ‘Frocks’ in 1 month for Stand Up To Cancer.
In week 2 the fair came to town. There was also a rainy start to the week, brightening later.
The Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Helen Pighills, visited Cancer Research UK’s shop in Bury Street this morning, and is seen here with Clare.
There is also an ever changing display of frocks in the shop window.
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Safe PC Disposal have a warehouse and shop at 5 Suffolk Way in Abingdon, and have now opened a shop on the High Street in the town centre. They are just waiting for planning permission before putting up a proper sign, and are using one the A boards normally seen off the Drayton Road. They generally sell refurbished PCs and Laptops, and accessories.
Galaxy TecnO on East St Helen Street also do something similar, and have a larger range of technical accessories. So there is now a chance to shop around in Abingdon.
To treat thus a Maiden’s a shame and disgrace;
‘Twas vile to desert her – unfeeling and base;
Yet, what but such conduct could any one hope;
(Not forgiven, I’m sure, would it be by the Pope)
From one, who by evidence clear it is shown,
Was really possessed of THE HEART OF A STONE.
Written in Court at Abingdon Assizes (Abingdon County Hall Sessions Hall) circa 1823, during the trial of a breach of promise of marriage.
Thursday 8 October 2015 is National Poetry Day. The day is a chance to break with the tyranny of prose by sharing poetry with the hashtag #nationalpoetryday.
Jessica couldn’t get to the fair this year and so she asked me to take a picture of her favourite ride. She remembers it best as Jump ‘n’ Smile. More recently it has been known as Froggit. This year it had been reincarnated as Super Bounce.
I sometimes try to imagine what Abingdon Fair was like in the past with the help of old newspapers … In 1830, instead of Superbowl, you might have seen “an exhibition of wild animals and fat ladies, and elephant and dwarfs, monkeys with hands and a child without any.”
Instead of The Waltzers “for the price of one penny, you could have seen the lying in state and funeral procession of George IVth, and the glorious battle of Paris during the very last revolution.”
In 1840 “Our Police Force needed to be vigilant in detecting the hordes of pick-pockets who could be seen in every direction pursuing their vocation.”
By 1882 rides had started to replace the shows, and exhibitions, so instead of Captain Hook you could have experienced “Bailey’s Steam Yachts with the simulated motion of the sea. Three electric lamps stationed outside gave a brilliant light, but they were not seen to best advantage amid the smoke and the blaze of paraffin lamps.”
“Birds was the only steam roundabout at the fair , but there was a rickety one in the Sheep Market at which a pony provided the power.”