Athletes to be left in the dark at Tilsley Park

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Thanks to Roy for this …
Athletes left in the dark
I am an athlete who trains at Tilsley Park. Now I am not sure if you are aware but Abingdon School are going to change the centre of the track dramatically. The throwing area in the centre of the track is going to be replaced with a 3G rubgy pitch. This will mean track training will be impacted. Worse still, the throwers will not be able to do winter training, because they have to move the throw cage to a new location and they cannot put up lights as they would be too close to residences.

Our club has produced some incredible world class throwers at Tilsley Park in recent years.

Emma O’Hara:
Emma qualifies final Eugene
O’hara comes close to England gold medal

Ossy Muskwe who is now in Team GB:
Osman gets his GB call cards
Radley’s Muskwe lands English crown/
Muskwe breaks Radley record/
Athletes left in the dark
But sadly they will not be able to train in the winter at Tilsley any more.
Athletes left in the dark
The equipment and bulldozers are on site for work this weekend. We are puzzled as why we were not consulted beforehand. More at Radley Athletics Club.

The Last of the Shelves

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The Last of the Shelves
The last of the shelves are piled in a Sims Metal Management container. Everything else has goes into the Chilton Waste container.
The Last of the Shelves
In just a few days the Bury Street store has been emptied of shelves and cabinets. The speed makes me wonder whether there is somebody already lined up willing to pay a higher rent – another supermarket.

I remember Aldi did want to open at Fairacres, but because of the Fairacres covenant were not allowed.

In their place there is a B&M who sell, among all their other household goods, a limited range of groceries – crisps, cereal, confectionery, and tins. Nothing fresh chilled or frozen.

A Symposium on Abingdon’s Prehistory

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Abingdons Prehistoric Earthworks
There will be an all day symposium on Saturday 18th July 2015 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on ‘Abingdon and its Prehistoric Earthworks’.
Abingdons Prehistoric Earthworks
The final lecture by Dr Zena Kamash will be about discoveries at Spring Road Cemetery. The pictures above shows the site in 2000 during excavation, and in 2015 with the new Garden of Remembrance.

The cemetery was created from agricultural land in 1940, and during the early years so many ancient graves were being disturbed to create new graves that it was decided to do some proper excavations before all the evidence got lost.

The Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical, in conjunction with the Ashmolean Museum, is making a contribution to the National Festival of Archaeology 2015 by holding this one day free event in the Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum.

The Full Programme:
10:15 Dr. Gill Hey: Introduction
10:30 George Lambrick: The Drayton Cursus and other Monuments in the Development of Prehistoric Ceremonial and Funerary Complexes in the Upper Thames Valley.
11.30 Dr. Frances Healy: A Brief Life: placing the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure in Time.
12.30 Lunch Break.
Time to look round a display of finds in the Ashmolean reserve collections from Barrow Hills, the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure and other sites of relevance to Abingdon.
14.00 Dr. Alistair Barclay: Barrow Hills Excavation: thirty years on.
15.00 Dr. Zena Kamash: Excavations at Spring Road Cemetery, a Bronze Age Pit Circle and other discoveries.

Edible Abingdon

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Edible Abingdon
Behind the kiosk of the open air swimming pool there is a small area of edible plants.
Edible Abingdon
It is amazing to see how many different edible plants the Abingdon Carbon Cutters have managed to grow in such a small area. Lettuces are in season, and you can pick your own.
Edible Abingdon
The wild flower meadow nearby is also blooming.
Edible Abingdon
That is another project of Abingdon Carbon Cutters – with their “local response to climate change.”