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Banbury Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Banbury - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Henley-on-Thames Town and City Memories
Paperback
Adderbury memories
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The Lodge Adderbury House
My family lived in The Lodge (house on far right of picture) for about 47 years.
The Lodge is the gatehouse to the mansion called Adderbury House which became a home for elderly after the 2nd World War. The two pubs you can see are The Red Lion (still exists) and The Wheatsheaf which is now a house.
Contributed by Glyn Gilkes
Oxfordshire memories
The Lodge Adderbury House
My family lived in The Lodge (house on far right of picture) for about 47 years.
The Lodge is the gatehouse to the mansion called Adderbury House which became a home for elderly after the 2nd World War. The two pubs you can see are The Red Lion (still exists) and The Wheatsheaf which is now a house.
A memory of Adderbury contributed by Glyn Gilkes
Visiting Grandad & Uncles at Noth Aston
My Father's name was Cato and he was born at North Aston. He was one of a family of eleven and although they were poor they seemed to have a very happy childhood. It was a yearly event for me when I was a child to go and visit my Grandad and Uncles who still lived in the village. There was a big old tree on the green and it could be climbed from the inside. Dad said it was like that when he was a child and my children also climbed the tree. Sadly I don't think it is there any longer. My children like to go to the church and see where one of my Uncles carved his ...read more here
A memory of North Aston contributed by Audrey Price
The Thirties
My grandmother, widowed, lived during the 20s and 30s at 1, High Street (next to The Dolphin), and was glad of family visits to assist in her invalid-style of life. That usually meant our family, and my mother took a number of 'Busman's Holidays' each year to help her mother, my Gran. We children became familiar over the years with the village, especially the Upper Middleton part. My grandfather had been schoolmaster at the Primary School; he was called William George.
Gran's cottage had, like many, a rather decrepit pump in the garden as its water supply (see Nancy Long's History). A large apple-tree stood in the garden and - of course - a vegetable patch beyond. Over the low ...read more here
A memory of Middleton Cheney contributed by Roger Dye
Extracts From Adderbury & Oxfordshire books
Adderbury, south of Banbury, evolved as a result of the wool trade. Lord Montagu, William of Orange’s minister,
lived here at one time. The sturdy spire of St Mary’s church is visible for miles around. Note the old Hovis sign
just below it.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
Founded in 1437 by Henry Chichele to commemorate Henry V and those who fell at Agincourt, All Souls is distinguished by some of the finest architecture in Oxford. The tower displaying the college arms was designed by Hawksmoor. The Radcliffe Camera is one of the reading rooms for the Bodleian Library, its dome an outstanding landmark on the city’s skyline.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".
The village is situated on a loop of the Thames
between Oxford and Abingdon. Today, Sandford
is a rapidly-expanding riverside village, but in
the 1950s, it was a quiet rural community. Note
the old RAC logo on the left.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".
Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built
on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis
and the River Cherwell, Oxford creates the
impression of sitting on an island. It was the
damp climate here which probably drove the
Romans away.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".
This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by
Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing
reach; at one time the bank would have been lined
with eye-catching college barges, which were used as
grandstands and clubhouses. Many of them have now
gone—fallen into decay or converted into modest
houseboats or holiday accommodation.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".