“The Nags Head” is written in the roof tiles above the pub – after the recent roof job.
Next time Tim Peake peers down on Abingdon, from the International Space Station, I wonder if he will be able to make out the pub’s name.
“The Nags Head” is written in the roof tiles above the pub – after the recent roof job.
Next time Tim Peake peers down on Abingdon, from the International Space Station, I wonder if he will be able to make out the pub’s name.
Something in the back of my head keeps telling me this was once spelt with 2 gg’s i.e Naggs? Googling it I found Naggs prefixed with a K is an old northern England name for someone who lived on an outcrop or headland ?
Another piece of useless information was that a distant relative by the name of Hanks from SuttonCourtenay lost ownership of the pub in a card game, same relie is said to have driven his horse & cart from Sutton to the Naggs all the way along the frozen river Thames !
Those old-timers knew how to beat the traffic
Not so sure this looks great, bit tacky!
I wonder how they go that through planning permission, or advertising consent?
Perhaps as a reference point for passing Astronauts!
I don’t know about planning consent, but they might have added some spaces between the words. It may be just the camera angle but could equally read:
“The Nag Shed”
Looks more like “THEN RGS HERD” to me.
An apostrophe wouldn’t go amiss 😉
Sorry to add something completely off topic but about 1pm today did anyone see the light aircraft circling over Abingdon. On one circuit some paper was ejected from the aircraft which drifted off towards the Nags from the above the Abbey Hall. Anyone expecting a leaflet drop from a Blue/White Cessna registration G-MSES earlier today? it did another circuit as if to see where the paper had gone and then headed off towards Oxford.
According to its registration I d it belongs to “Go Fly Oxford” a learn to fly outfit operating from Hinton airfield, North Oxon !
An online search does indeed yield a photo of the plane. Given more time I’d have followed the paper until it came down in Rye Farm Meadow or close by. Is it an offence to litter the place from an aircraft?
They do indeed drop paper. Where they land…that’s how they decide where to build houses.
It’s a bit like “pin the tail on the donkey”.
So what you are saying is it was a spotter plane for Cranbourne Homes 😉
This has to be one of, if not THE tackiest thing I have ever seen on a pub in Abingdon. Absolutely no point to it… Once again that idiot that owns the pub now has made a stupid decision..
Not saying he hasn’t made any good decisions, just this… Is really really bad.