The overnight rain turned to snow this morning, and heavy snow at times.
I made a short video as I walked round town marveling at the snow, and then went to Trinity where the snow was settling on the grass.
Unexpected Heavy Snow
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Thanksgiving for the life of Michael Hambleton
On Friday there was a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Michael Hambleton, minister of Abingdon Baptist Church from 1991 to 2000.
He enjoyed local history and wrote the story of Abingdon Baptist Church from 1649-2011 – a book called ‘A Sweet and Hopeful People’.
During his time as Minister, the 35 Ock Street project transformed the old manse, which had been in a sorry state, into the Church in Abingdon open house. It is now manned by teams from the different churches and open Mon-Fri 10.30 – 2.00 pm, and Saturday 10.30 – 12.30 pm.
Michael said in his book, “This was not so much the minister’s vision as the church’s vision”
But I dare say it took his prayers, leadership, and encouragement to see the project through.
Fire at Timpson’s shoe repairs
The Abingdon Fire Fighters attended a fire at the Timpson’s shoe repair kiosk in the Abbey Shopping Centre on Thursday morning.
The shop is now closed until further notice. If you want keys cut in town then Knights, on Ock Street, have an excellent service. For shoe repairs then there is the new Timpson’s kiosk at Tesco, Abingdon.
Temporary Traffic Lights on Bridge Street for Gas Main Work
A wet start to Saturday and two men were down in the trenches working on the gas mains in Bridge Street. There have been temporary traffic lights, causing some queues, for the last week or so.
The Broad Face tweets “Again just to let everyone know,we are open and the work on the road has nothing to do with our gas-brunch and lunch today…”.