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George Webb & family
Kate Maria Webb christened St Peters in the East 21 Sep 1860 (12 years of age), Abode - 85 High Street Oxford, Parents - George Webb & Elizabeth,
Trade - Gunmaker. (copy of parish registrar entry held by contributor)
George Webb & Elizabeth Sugar of 85 High Street later 36 Iffley Rd (1881 Census) died 16 Feb 1892 (89 Iffley Rd) - buried St Peters in the East (no headstones standing today) (copy of Death Cert held by contributor)
Family of George & Elizabeth - George Walter (m Amelia Lockwood), Annie Louisa (m Charles Carter), Francis Edward, Ellen Alice, Kate Maria (m John Lowe, emigrated NZ), Laura Nina (m Charles Stuart Cumberland)
Descendant of Annie Louisa is Olenka Thomas ...read more here
Contributed by Lyn Roberts
This photograph is taken from the playing fields of Magdalen College School and shows the Botanical Gardens.
Contributed by Mr J Gardiner
Oxfordshire memories
George Webb & family
Kate Maria Webb christened St Peters in the East 21 Sep 1860 (12 years of age), Abode - 85 High Street Oxford, Parents - George Webb & Elizabeth,
Trade - Gunmaker. (copy of parish registrar entry held by contributor)
George Webb & Elizabeth Sugar of 85 High Street later 36 Iffley Rd (1881 Census) died 16 Feb 1892 (89 Iffley Rd) - buried St Peters in the East (no headstones standing today) (copy of Death Cert held by contributor)
Family of George & Elizabeth - George Walter (m Amelia Lockwood), Annie Louisa (m Charles Carter), Francis Edward, Ellen Alice, Kate Maria (m John Lowe, emigrated NZ), Laura Nina (m Charles Stuart Cumberland)
Descendant of Annie Louisa is Olenka Thomas ...read more here
A memory of Oxford contributed by Lyn Roberts
This photograph is taken from the playing fields of Magdalen College School and shows the Botanical Gardens.
A memory of Oxford contributed by Mr J Gardiner
Extracts From Oxford & Oxfordshire books
This view of Oxford’s dreaming spires remains as impressive today as it was when this photograph was taken during the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign. In the foreground is the city’s famous High Street, often described as one of the most beautiful streets in Europe.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".
From the vantage point of Magdalen College belfry we look westwards along the High Street towards some of the wondrous ‘dreaming spires’, including the 14th-century spire of St Mary’s Church; to its right is the dome of the sublime Radcliffe Camera, built in the 1740s by James Gibbs. To the left is Jackson’s splendid Jacobethan Examination Schools, completed only eight years before this view was taken.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
More than one hundred years ago Cowley was nothing more than a large village, its intricate maze of rooftops stretching towards the horizon. Today, the motor industry dominates this sprawling suburb of the city, and much of Cowley has changed beyond recognition.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".
When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the
suburbs of Oxford. Later, Cowley was to change forever when the motor industry began to envelop this corner of
the city in the early years of the 20th century.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
Robert Peel, William Gladstone and W H Auden were among the college’s more distinguished students, and when John Fell was dean here, one of his scholars based a famous Latin epigram on him following a reprimand.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".