Abingdon Blog

Abingdon is probably the oldest town in Britain - continuously inhabited since the Iron Age. Abingdon is seven miles downstream from Oxford on the River Thames. The Abingdon Blog is a photo record of events and places in Abingdon - mostly every day.

Friday, 27 January 2006

And Nowhere Else


This is a shop to go into. You are surrounded by warm aromas: herbal remedies, fresh bread, spices. There are pulses and beans in jars; and shelves crammed with different herbal remedies, health foods, preseves, pickles, organic wines... It Is just to be found at 17 West St Helen Street AND NOWHERE ELSE.

Thursday, 26 January 2006

aBINGDON aRTS pREVIEW 2006


The Abingdon Arts Festival will begin on March 8th and the final event a Pop Fest with Los Pacaminos will be on April 8th.
It will begin with various musical performances in the Market Square. There will be lots of jazz including a concert by Stekpanna joined by George Haslam from Abingdon. George seems to get jazz bands to come from faraway places like Argentina, Germany, and now Scandinavia. The festival will also see the unveiling of the Charter Wall Hanging... Theatre includes:
Half a Sixpence - by Abingdon Operatic Society
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads - by The Abingdon Touring Theatre Company
Three Sisters - by The Old Gaol Theatre Company
Macbeth - by Abingdon Drama Club
And much much more...