There were some lovely clear reflections from the River Thames upstream from Abingdon Bridge.

Nearing Abingdon Weir the water got rougher. Lots of people were enjoying the walk, and riverside views.

The walkway over Abingdon Weir

and Lock makes a circular walk possible – along one bank and back along the other.

Next to the weir a stone reads:

THIS LOCKE WAS BVILDED BY
S. GEORGE STONEHOVSE AND
RICHARD ADAMS ANN. 1649

The stone is mounted in concrete. Since 1649. the weir has been reconstructed and repaired numerous times. I gather that the walkway across the weir was added during work in the 1960s.

Thankyou to Steve for sending these pictures from this morning in Wilsham Road.

This week’s Abingdon Herald has an account of the car crash at 1 a.m on Sunday morning. The speeding car first hit a parked vehicle and then careered into the River Thames. Both driver and passenger were able to get out.

This morning the car was rescued from the River Thames.

The car was towed towards more shallow water, and then winched out.

It was a Skoda Octavia sold in 2018.

Thanks to Steve for the first 2 pictures of a 9lb Pike caught by Keith,

and some surfers caught by a boat.

Steve himself threw in a hook to pull out a bike that got thrown into the river the day before. He must have had a lot of practise as he hooked it and pulled it out at the first attempt. The bike, an Apollo, was left on Wilsham Road by the old canal junction waiting to be reunited with its owner.