On August 6, 1945 a 9700-pound uranium bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima.

Sixty Five years later visitors from Hiroshima – on their way to Coventry – came to Abingdon to present a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima to the Mayor of Abingdon.

During this week the former Adams shop has become a place of peace where people make origami cranes. Most only make one…

but these three children and their mum made forty paper cranes last night.

There is a japanese saying that one who folds 1,000 cranes is granted a wish, and Abingdon is making a 1,000 cranes for Peace in the shop.

Anne Dodd visited Hiroshima last year and the visit is partly a result of the friends she made.

Wikipedia has a fuller story of Sadoko Sasaki from Hiroshima who tried to make a thousand paper cranes while suffering from Leukemia – the atomic bomb disease as her mother called it.

(This Abingdon Blog is having a rest for a week – back soon. In the mean time visit How to Fold a Paper Crane.)