The Loose Cannon brewery had a busy time leading up to Christmas.
This was my first time inside the brewery since it opened back in August.
The shop, out front, has been decked out with boughs of hops.
I wish Loose Cannon every success, and a Happy New Year. Abingdon Bridge, the regular brew, will be joined by a new IPA beer around February. You will have to hurry to get any of the Christmas Cannon.
This is the state of the town centre on a rainy Wednesday at the end of 2010
(Press on image for a bigger pdf version. Not a brilliant map and not to scale but it serves this yearly purpose.)
Key:
Red is a vacant shop premises that was occupied at the start of the year.
Yellow means a change of business.
Green is a shop that was vacant at the start of the year which is now occupied.
Change in 2007 (10 red, 6 green, 5 yellow) – Net Loss 4
Change in 2008 (13 red, 10 green, 8 yellow) – Net Loss 3
Change in 2009 (6 red, 9 green, 6 yellow) – Net Gain 3
Change in 2010 (5 red, 8 green, 6 yellow) – Net Gain 3
Abingdon now has a brewery and a tearoom – two things that have been missing for a few years. The van is from Loose Cannon Brewery and is outside the window of Rosie’s Tearoom.
In the late afternoon temperatures rose to a balmy 5 or 6 degrees C
and a steamy mist rose from the River Thames around Saint Helen’s Wharf, and further afield.
Five new seats and five new bins have recently appeared in the Albert Park. This has led to a super abundance of litter bins since a lot of the old stone bins are still there – even though the broken and vandalised seats had to be removed.
In the Albert Park the thaw has led to some very slushy paths.
