On Saturday, members of the Royal British Legion were selling poppies on the Market Place as part of the Local Excellence Market. When I passed by, the Mayor of Ock Street, Harry Knight and Roger Fox, from the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, were manning the stall.

Local young artists have created a mural on the wall behind the Royal British Legion headquarters in Spring Road, Abingdon. The ‘Oxford Graffiti Crew’ could be behind this.

Inside the headquarters, Caroline Ritson was also painting a mural, to mark the forthcoming Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day commemorations.

Remembrance events in Abingdon

On Sunday 8th November, the main events will be:

10:00 am – Church Service: The official Remembrance service takes place at St Helen’s Church, East St Helen Street.

11:00 am – Act of Remembrance: Following the church service, a parade moves to the War Memorial for the wreath-laying ceremony and the two-minute silence at 11:00 am.

Other Church Services: Trinity Church on Conduit Road will also hold a commemorative service, joined by All Saints Church.

On Wednesday 11th November (Armistice Day), there will be another opportunity to observe the two-minute silence at 11:00 am at the War Memorial.

P.S. Having made various changes to the blog last week to bring the software up to date for security and for future ease of maintenance, I heard of one person getting a security warning. This was fixed by recreating a bookmark from https://www.abingdonblog.co.uk/.