Abingdon Wetherspoons to Open October 8th 2013 9 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am

Wetherspoons Abingdon Work Finally Starts 17th July 2013 19 Jul 2013 | 12:44 am

After many rumours and delays work finally begins. Property developers had already emptied the interior and replaced the old Post Office front but then nothing happened for a year or so. Wetherspoons ...

Abingdon Wetherspoons to open in October 2013 4 Jun 2013 | 01:52 am

Wetherspoons got planning permission to reuse the old Abingdon Post Office last year and it was rumoured to open by March 2013. Indeed there was much rebuilding activity up until that time, apparently...

No More Huge Steam Clouds: Didcot Cooling Towers are Cold 28 Mar 2013 | 01:25 am

Hard to believe that those steam clouds that could be seen from East St Helens and St Helens Wharf are no more.

The Stone Circle at Stanton Harcourt 13 Feb 2013 | 02:40 am

I was alerted to this because not far from Newbridge is the intriguingly named Stone-Henge Farm. Stanton Harcourt Stone Circle known as the Devil’s Quoits. By the 1940s only 3 standing stones were sti...

Abingdon Post Office being rebuilt as a Wetherspoons 18 Jan 2013 | 07:27 pm

Abingdon Strowger Telephone Exchange was in the rear of the Post Office which is why it is a huge premises . The Post Office itself moved to the Co-Op a few years ago.

Alas Poem Tree at Wittenham Clumps is Dead 12 Jan 2013 | 07:18 pm

New Years Day Boundary Walk 2013 22 Dec 2012 | 11:39 pm

Traditional beating the bounds walk New Year’s Day leaves Market Place at 10.30am Abingdon town walks continue at 10.30am each second and fourth Thursday from Market Place – 27th December and 3rd Janu...

Morland Pubs of Old Berkshire 8 Dec 2012 | 01:29 am

I have been “collecting” Morland Pubs for the last few years. They are usually identified by the “Painter Plaque”. Please let me know of (m)any I have missed.

Abingdon Worrying about the Level of the Thames Again but it is all about the OCK 24 Nov 2012 | 11:17 pm