{"id":34515,"date":"2025-11-04T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34515"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:07:15","slug":"the-week-ahead-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34515","title":{"rendered":"The week ahead in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week ahead in Abingdon brings fireworks, remembrance, concerts, and a local football derby.
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\nThursday 6th November<\/strong>
\nChris Fox brings his mix of folk guitar and live looping to the Unicorn Theatre, joined by Wednesday\u2019s Wolves. The Unicorn always makes a good setting for folk concerts.
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\nFriday 7th November<\/strong>
\nThere\u2019s history in the Roysse Room, where Gareth Howell gives the final talk in his WWII series – 1945: The End of the Third Reich. Please book your tickets at the Museum Reception
\nor online at\u00a0https:\/\/www.ticketsource.co.uk\/abingdon-museum\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/strong>(+0.84 booking fee applied)
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\nUnder the floodlights at The Northcourt, Abingdon United take on Milton United in a local derby. It\u2019s part of the Combined Counties League Premier Division North, a league made up of clubs from Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and west London and west Surrey.
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\nSaturday 8th November<\/strong>
\nThe St Michael\u2019s Christmas Fair runs from 10am to 2:30pm with crafts, books, cakes, a raffle, live music, children\u2019s stalls, and those famous bacon butties. Proceeds support church funds and Emmaus Oxford.
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\nAs darkness falls, there\u2019ll be fireworks behind Long Furlong Community Centre. Gates open at 6pm, and fireworks start somewhere between 7:30 and 7:45. It\u2019s a family-friendly evening organised by the 2nd Abingdon Scouts, complete with a BBQ and hot drinks.<\/p>\n

Other displays will be happening around the town: some at schools, one at the Nags Head, and a big event at Dalton Barracks next week.
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\nAbingdon & District Musical Society perform Mozart\u2019s Requiem and Rachmaninov\u2019s Symphony No. 1 at St Helen\u2019s Church on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Sunday 9th November<\/strong>
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\nOn Remembrance Sunday, there will be the traditional parade from the Guildhall to St Helen\u2019s Church for the 10am service, and then the parade on to the War Memorial for the act of remembrance from 10:50am.<\/p>\n

A smaller gathering will also mark Armistice Day on Tuesday 11th November at 11am beside the War Memorial.
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\nOn Sunday afternoon, the Pavlova Wind Quintet join Glynne Butt on piano at St Michael\u2019s for Mozart and Glinka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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