Archives can be dusty, dreary places and that’s certainly been true of the AOS photo archive. For years, shelves full of photo albums from decades of our show history had been gathering dust on a kind member’s spare bedroom wall. And the saddest part of this archive is that no one ever got to look at it.

So, over the last few years, we’ve gradually been working through this archive digitalising as much as we can.  It’s been a huge task, but we’ve managed to scan paper photos and 35mm slides from every show we’ve been able to find.  For some shows we’ve found very little, but for others there have been fifty or more images to capture.

We’ve also managed to find programmes for nearly every show, so we’ve scanned the front covers and cast lists, so that you can check back and see just how many people have trodden the boards (as the saying goes) over the 65+ years that AOS has been entertaining audiences.

It’s sad to see those few Covid years recently that created the first break in performances for decades, but you can also see that we’ve come back twice as strong and even more determined to bring the best of musical theatre to Abingdon.

All this content is now hosted on the Flickr web site, and is also held in a secure cloud storage area.  You can visit the show archive here.

So if you have a few minutes to spare, why not take a trip down memory lane with us.