The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Abingdon, Oxfordshire*

Abingdon, Oxfordshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Pies and Bangers house on the Peachcroft Estate. Great games!
• Daisybank, alas no more!
• the museum, it's good when youcan go up top anyway.
• the old cinema
• harry bailey's workshop ( for the smell )

Demolish It Now Building

• Saxton Road community centre
• Those new flats by Maccie D's Vodafone head office The new police station (looks like a sinking ship)
• one of the many many card shops there are.
• any one in the precinct.
• The cinema in Abingdon, opposite Lloyds Bank, as it is not being utilised to the extent it should be, and perhaps consider what should be done with it, as all it has been doing over the last few years or so, is just standing there, empty, and using it as a cinema again would be great, because I'm sure there are people in The Abingdon area, who would find it convenient of going to see a film, without having to go further a field.
• all the houses in saxon road
• old cinema
• The whole of the shopping precinct.

The Best Things

• Ever notice how the view down from Lodge Hill garage as you come off the A34 makes Abingdon look like Springfield?
• A great 8 breakfast in Tescos after a night in the Venue. Drinks in the Nags garden in the summer. The paddling pool in the abbey grounds.
• The Kings Head and Bell disco late at night
• None, the Town is awful with nothing to do, avoid at all costs.
• fresh air sometimes nice young rich girls
• The tall blonde barmaid in the spread eagle
• Nice power station (Didcot'A'). I see they're building another one (Didcot'B'); how nice. What a great place to live (a bit like Milton Keynes). There's never a shortage of contractors!!

The Worst Things

• Getting old. (yeah, yeah, so I'm bitter about it.......)
• The old cinema
• This Christmas (Dec 2000) will be the usual ghost town I expect made worse by the hopeless rail and bus connections to Oxford. There seems to have been an increase in Abingdon of families from The North milling around the precinct. I dont know what the problem is but these families all seem very very uptite constantly threatening to assault each other in broad daylight in the hearing of all around. Youngsters about 3 foot high and 10 or less are continually threatened with dire sadistic physical violence.This juyst seems to result in a corresponding increase at 14 in graffiti spraying,mugging and horseplay. I put it down to the poor diet and shopping in the town. The problem is hitting toddlers just brutalises them and it looks very bad. Spanking them(if it goes on who knows?)will just produce SM perverts in the boys or maybe turn them into homosexuals (who knows)of course this town is increasingly one where "a good bare bottom walloping i at home in front of three or four assembled mothers"is increasingly the cure for all ills.Sad and disturbing.A centre of pervert production.
• the shops are all the same-who needs three card shops in one precinct?
• see above
• isolated Christmas Day Drunken seedy undertones by barracks & agricultural workers increasigly out of tune Groups of unemployed yobs boredom
• the landlord in the punch bowl
• An army base nearby ensures multitudes of squaddies full of alcohol and looking for fights

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Last updated: 2008-01-24