Steeple Aston
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Girl Guide camp
Hi! I have fond memories of Steeple Aston. I attended a guide camp somewhere outside the village, it was the first time I had seen real countryside, we spent two weeks there. I came from London's East End there were guides from other areas of London and also guides from what I think was a boarding school, but I can't remember where from. We all got on well with each other. I seem to remember the land we camped on belonged to a farm, the name Browning comes to mind but I can't be sure. I have never forgotten that time, wonderful to be out of London at that time we had seen so much bombing and it gave me a ...read more here
Contributed by marie doughty
Oxfordshire memories
Girl Guide camp
Hi! I have fond memories of Steeple Aston. I attended a guide camp somewhere outside the village, it was the first time I had seen real countryside, we spent two weeks there. I came from London's East End there were guides from other areas of London and also guides from what I think was a boarding school, but I can't remember where from. We all got on well with each other. I seem to remember the land we camped on belonged to a farm, the name Browning comes to mind but I can't be sure. I have never forgotten that time, wonderful to be out of London at that time we had seen so much bombing and it gave me a ...read more here
A memory of Steeple Aston contributed by marie doughty
MY SECOND HOME
In 1943 I worked on the Great Western Railway and sent by them to Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire as a locomotive fireman. It was here that I met a young lady whose home was Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire. She also worked in Leamington on the GWR as a Passenger Guard. This lady was later to become my wife. After a short period of going out together she invited me to her home.
Her home 112 Freehold Street, Lower Heyford is shown in the picture, seen on the right with a Porch at the front door and a bush adjacent. The Family were Mr. & Mrs. George Cuss. They had three children, 1. Alice, (Now Mrs. A. Stockley living at Swanage, Dorset. ...read more here
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by Roy Newton
The Bakery
When I lived in the village there was a bakery at the building on the corner of this road where it went down to the canal. The flour was ground at the Mill over the drawbridge for making the most delicious bread you could buy in those days. My grandfather worked at the Mill grinding the flour.
The last time I visited the village there was an antique shop in its place.
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by marion june messenger
Extracts From Steeple Aston & Oxfordshire books
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".
Over on the left there used to be a ‘pennyless bench’, where women
sold butter and beggars scrounged a few shillings from passers-by.
More than 300 years before this photograph was taken, the Carfax
Conduit was built in the middle of the junction, conveying piped
water from nearby Hinksey.
An extract from from"Oxford Pocket Album".