At the Old Abbey Buildings, this evening, local historians and dignitaries gathered to celebrate the first 100 Entries of Abingdon People and Buildings on the town history portal.
The Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames, Helen Pighills, cut the cake, and Manfred Brod told us how the project had been initiated, researched and edited by members of Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society.
Many people helped in the project. Pictured are Michael Harrison, who takes a lot of the photographs, and Ruth Weinberg who cooked the ABP 100 cake.
Ruth will also be doing a talk for Heritage Open Days at St Nicolas Church ‘Victorian Abingdon in pictures‘ on Thursday 10th September at 12:30.
If you can’t make that then there is another talk ‘Albert Park – The Development of a Victorian Suburb‘ by Jackie Smith on Friday 11th September at 19:30. Both are free as are all Heritage Open Days events.
All articles are peer reviewed before they are published on the web – to ensure they are well researched, and read well. The first 100 articles contain Historic Buildings from Abbey Gateway to 48 West St Helen Street, and Abingdon People from The Ackling Family to William Thomas Garrett Woodforde.
Find out more at abingdon.gov.uk/partners/history.
Well Done Manfred, Ruth and team – great project