Building Progress in Abingdon this April

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Building Progress
Next to the Wootton Road shops there is a new development of 8 apartments. (see Hester’s comment 1 for correction about what it replaced.)

Work on the Abingdon School Science Centre continues.

Much of the scaffolding has been removed from the new care apartments on Ock Street that replace Mayott House. The roof is on, and most of the windows are in.
Building Progress
Regarding the Old Gaol it is difficult to tell how things are progressing. It is the 40th anniversary of the Old Gaol opening as a leisure centre, and Abingdon Music Centre.

April 2015 Abingdon Blog – on Youtube

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There have been Abingdon Blog youtube videos for over 5 years.

Easily the most popular, from last year’s Mayor of Ock Street, is ‘The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancing Princess Royal’, which has 15,422 views. It can be viewed on Youtube.

There used to be an end of month youtube slideshow. This month I am trying that out again but with a difference. It has moving pictures and real background sounds … Here is ‘Abingdon Blog – April 2015 – on Youtube.’

Press the youtube logo bottom right, after it starts, to see it bigger on youtube …

Saturday Morning

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This Satuday Morning:

Sue Ryder took over the Kempster Room, in the museum basement, for a sale of clothing, at just £1 for three items.
French Crafts
There was a small French Antiques and Craft Market on the Market Place. This is a change from the usual French Food Market – put on to see if the concept would work before they bring the rest of the market.
Scouts
The scouts were also on the Market Place selling books, bric-a-brac, and Tombola tickets.

There were still armbands available for the Music in the Park event on 6th June.
Scouts
The Friends of Radley Lakes also had a display of photographs of Radley Lakes at St Ethelwolds House.

Apologies to anybody who this does not concern but if you do live in Caldecott Ward, I did do a short biography in the About link just in case.

UKIP Shop four weeks on

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UKIP pop-up shop
About 4 weeks ago UKIP opened their Oxfordshire Campaign HQ in East St Helen Street, Abingdon-on-Thames. It was rumored that their charismatic leader, Nigel Farage, would be there for the opening, but another MEP (Member of European Parliament) did the honours.

I have been by the shop many times since.
UKIP pop-up shop
There are 2 balloons, slowly deflating, out the back, but I have not seen any campaigning activity.