Monthly Archives: October 2018

Abingdon Poppy Festival

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Poppy Festival
Sea cadets
Poppy Festival
and Army cadets were in Abingdon today, with stalls on the Market Place, and selling poppies in the town centre.
Poppy Festival
The Mayor, Councillor Margaret Crick, and Ena Mitchell, a war widow now aged 100, were also there to support the event.
Poppy Festival
Clare, who organised the selling of poppies in Abingdon and the festival, is seen with Richard, from the MG Car Club, who invited along some red MGs.
Poppy Festival
That included a 1966 MG Magnette, specially decorated with silhouettes and poppies. The owners, Jeremy and Judith, from Aylesbury told me that the MG Magnette has done 55,000 miles in all that time.
Poppy Festival
The display case at Abingdon Library has a leaflet from the Signing of the Armistice in 1918.
Poppy Festival
2018 is the centenary of the end of World War I, and 5000 of the poppies sold this year in Abingdon have 1918-2018 printed on the leaves.

Wood Carvers in the Community Free Space

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Wood Carvers
In the Community Free Space members of the Oxon & Bucks Branch of the British Woodcarvers Association were still hard at work after the other shops around them had closed. The club was formed in May 2005 by a group of enthusiastic amateur carvers together with tutor Brian Eastoe.
Wood Carvers
As in previous years visitors are invited to see the craftsmen at work, see some of their finished works, and vote on the favorite work created in the last year. They will also be in the Community Free Space tomorrow (Saturday 27th October). There is also a Poppy Festival on the Market Place.
Wood Carvers
I then went to the library and on the way up the stairs took a picture of the panel that the wood carvers designed for the 450th anniversary of the Abingdon Charter in 2006.

Art and Stuff Five Years Old

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Abingdon Art and Stuff
Art and Stuff has been selling antiques, pictures, collectibles, and quirky stuff for five years now, and has been a great addition to Abingdon since taking over the premises opposite Abingdon War Memorial. Inside the shop, Gromit, the dog, is always on hand to greet customers in a quiet friendly manner.

Last time I was in there I had a look through a pile of old newspapers from the 1930s and 40s, and bought a Daily Mirror from January 1936. Most of the paper was dedicated to King George V whose funeral was that day. ‘Throughout the system of Cable and Wireless, Ltd., a two-minute silence will be observed to-day from 1.30 p.m.

Circuits will be suspended and cable and wireless instruments, which in the ordinary course never cease working on any day of the year, will be silent as a world-wide tribute to the late King.”

Contrails on an Evening Sky

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Just some of the pictures from a walk across Albert Park this evening …
Abingdon Marathon 2018
A jet leaves a vapour trail across the sky.
Abingdon Marathon 2018
The contrails (condensation trails)  have added to the evening cloud.
Abingdon Marathon 2018
The three bells in St Michael’s bell tower silhouetted with evening sky behind.