St. Helen’s Church in Abingdon has an Easter garden in the West Porch, made with spring flowers and moss and representing the tomb in the Garden of Gethsemane, with the crosses on the hill of Calvary behind it.
The garden and an Easter display can be viewed for a couple of hours on days until the 7th April. There are also bags of goodies for children.
Due to the government restrictions, only food and drink traders were on the Market Place for the Local Excellence Market.
Stalls were spaced out and a lot of people were wearing face masks.
If the national lockdown easing plan stays on track, there could be a fuller Local Excellence Market on 29th May.
Other Market place events that are now on the town council’s calendar include:
Election of the Mayor of Ock Street – Saturday, 19 June 2021
Splash of Pink Day – Saturday, 17 July 2021
Health Fest Abingdon – Saturday, 4th September 2021
The Abingdon branch of the Newbury Building Society will be moving this summer. A ‘We are Moving’ poster has appeared in the window of the West St Helen Street shop where they have been for 40 years.
The new location will be 34 Bury Street, next to New Look.
That was the address of The Lemon Plaice before Bury Street had a revamp in 2012.
On Tuesday the Mayor, Town Clerk and Town Crier took a minute at 12 noon to remember those whose lives have been affected during the pandemic. Many others in Abingdon stopped at school, work, home, or wherever they were to mark the minute.
In the evening at 8 pm, on Tuesday, some people lit a candle at their window or front door.
The Abingdon Herald’s headline is ‘Long Year, but Light at end of tunnel’.