The Last of the Shelves

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The Last of the Shelves
The last of the shelves are piled in a Sims Metal Management container. Everything else has goes into the Chilton Waste container.
The Last of the Shelves
In just a few days the Bury Street store has been emptied of shelves and cabinets. The speed makes me wonder whether there is somebody already lined up willing to pay a higher rent – another supermarket.

I remember Aldi did want to open at Fairacres, but because of the Fairacres covenant were not allowed.

In their place there is a B&M who sell, among all their other household goods, a limited range of groceries – crisps, cereal, confectionery, and tins. Nothing fresh chilled or frozen.

A Symposium on Abingdon’s Prehistory

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Abingdons Prehistoric Earthworks
There will be an all day symposium on Saturday 18th July 2015 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on ‘Abingdon and its Prehistoric Earthworks’.
Abingdons Prehistoric Earthworks
The final lecture by Dr Zena Kamash will be about discoveries at Spring Road Cemetery. The pictures above shows the site in 2000 during excavation, and in 2015 with the new Garden of Remembrance.

The cemetery was created from agricultural land in 1940, and during the early years so many ancient graves were being disturbed to create new graves that it was decided to do some proper excavations before all the evidence got lost.

The Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical, in conjunction with the Ashmolean Museum, is making a contribution to the National Festival of Archaeology 2015 by holding this one day free event in the Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum.

The Full Programme:
10:15 Dr. Gill Hey: Introduction
10:30 George Lambrick: The Drayton Cursus and other Monuments in the Development of Prehistoric Ceremonial and Funerary Complexes in the Upper Thames Valley.
11.30 Dr. Frances Healy: A Brief Life: placing the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure in Time.
12.30 Lunch Break.
Time to look round a display of finds in the Ashmolean reserve collections from Barrow Hills, the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure and other sites of relevance to Abingdon.
14.00 Dr. Alistair Barclay: Barrow Hills Excavation: thirty years on.
15.00 Dr. Zena Kamash: Excavations at Spring Road Cemetery, a Bronze Age Pit Circle and other discoveries.

Edible Abingdon

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Edible Abingdon
Behind the kiosk of the open air swimming pool there is a small area of edible plants.
Edible Abingdon
It is amazing to see how many different edible plants the Abingdon Carbon Cutters have managed to grow in such a small area. Lettuces are in season, and you can pick your own.
Edible Abingdon
The wild flower meadow nearby is also blooming.
Edible Abingdon
That is another project of Abingdon Carbon Cutters – with their “local response to climate change.”

Twinning English Language Course in Abingdon

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English Language Course
The Abingdon and District Twin Towns Society (ADTTS) are holding an English Language Course this week. The “students” arrived on Saturday 11th July. I met them, by chance, as they arrived at the Conduit Centre (part of Trinity Church) for a shared lunch on Sunday. They had been sight seeing in Abingdon that morning.

The “students” come from twin towns in Italy, France and Belgium. They will study each morning in the upstairs rooms at 35 Ock Street, then have afternoon outings to places like The Diamond Light Source, Dorchester, Henley-on-Thames, and Oxford.

Students stay with host families, and return home on 18th July. There was a German Language Course last month in twin town Schongau – with seven members of ADTTS attending.