What began with Amazon offering online bargains in the UK, on the day after Thanksgiving, has now been imported into shops in Abingdon, UK,
Quite a few businesses had Black Friday bargains and sales on offer today.
There is also a new shop opened on Stert Street with a black sign. What was Badgers has been transformed into Dapper Street.
Thursday night in Abingdon Town Centre and at the first anniversary of the re-opening of The Crown and Thistle a band were playing in the barn.
Further down Bridge Street at the Broad Face jazz players were performing.
Elsewhere less musical works were in progress …
Below High Street a ‘deep excavation’ has been dug by Cappagh Browne working on behalf of Lanes Group plc. for Thames Water “to improve your sewerage network.”
A lot of new scaffolding has recently been erected on the High Street.
And outside residences, the smaller, black, ‘non-recylable’ wheelie bins are waiting for their contents to be taken away and dumped in landfill or burned at the new Incinerator at Ardley in North Oxfordshire.
The Christmas Extravaganza road signs are there for the parade at 11:45am on Saturday, 29th November 2014.
Once the parade is over there will be entertainment in the Market Place and Bath Street, and traffic can flow normally. Entertainment will include a mix of Bands, Choirs, Dancers, Street Entertainers, and Punch and Judy. The Christmas lights will be switched on at 5:30pm followed by Fireworks.
To coincide with the Abingdon Christmas Extravaganza Day there will be free parking all day in all Abingdon’s car parks.
There are also other events that coincide with the Christmas Extravaganza Day:
Four cygnets, in their grey and white feathering, are still with mum and dad on the River Thames in Abingdon. They will probably stay together until mum and dad start thinking about next year’s brood.
On Nags Head Island the hire boats of the Abingdon Boat Centre – normally to be found stood up on oil drums during the off season – are nowhere to be seen.
The Abingdon Boat Centre say on their web site “Please note that our boat hire season has ended earlier than normal this year as we are planning to renew our efforts to have the site redeveloped.
Our vision for the site based on our own original scheme for redevelopment includes a new chandlery, workshop, improved boating facilities and a restaurant at first floor level.”
Just across the river, work on the last phase of the Old Gaol is well underway, and the new structure for one of the new ground floor restaurants is outlined by steel girders.