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Growing up in 1950's Wheatley.
I can remember my early childhood days. We lived in The Avenue. All the fields at the back of us were open fields. It is all houses of course these days.(Elton Crescent, Miller Road etc).
Early school days were having to walk to school at the infants school to be taught by Miss Flood or Miss Wren. Later on I attended primary school in Church Road.
I used to work as a kid for Ted Turner and John West the butcher. I also did a paper round before school and remember vividly some really cold winter mornings waiting for Mr Bill Phipps to bring the papers in from Oxford. The summer days were a lot better, deliver the papers and then ...read more here
Contributed by Bill Middleton
Bridge Bungalow Cafe
We lived at the BBC for many years. Near to the bridge over the River Thame, next to the garage run by Harold Thomas and Jeff Lafford. I went to Thame Grammar School on the double decker blue bus. Dad was George Allen, Mum was Alice Allen and uncle Bill and Auntie Joan lived just up the road. We used to fish in the river and sometimes the A40 used to be flooded when the river overflowd. grandad Allen was head gardener at Shotover House and Grandad Day lived in Forest Hill. Roger Allen, Melbourne, Australia. rogerstallen@msn.com.
Grandad used to drive the horse and cart along the almost deserted A40 from Shotover loaded with fruit and veg to Keenes in ...read more here
Contributed by Roger Allen
Oxfordshire memories
Bridge Bungalow Cafe
We lived at the BBC for many years. Near to the bridge over the River Thame, next to the garage run by Harold Thomas and Jeff Lafford. I went to Thame Grammar School on the double decker blue bus. Dad was George Allen, Mum was Alice Allen and uncle Bill and Auntie Joan lived just up the road. We used to fish in the river and sometimes the A40 used to be flooded when the river overflowd. grandad Allen was head gardener at Shotover House and Grandad Day lived in Forest Hill. Roger Allen, Melbourne, Australia. rogerstallen@msn.com.
Grandad used to drive the horse and cart along the almost deserted A40 from Shotover loaded with fruit and veg to Keenes in ...read more here
A memory of Wheatley contributed by Roger Allen
Growing up in 1950's Wheatley.
I can remember my early childhood days. We lived in The Avenue. All the fields at the back of us were open fields. It is all houses of course these days.(Elton Crescent, Miller Road etc).
Early school days were having to walk to school at the infants school to be taught by Miss Flood or Miss Wren. Later on I attended primary school in Church Road.
I used to work as a kid for Ted Turner and John West the butcher. I also did a paper round before school and remember vividly some really cold winter mornings waiting for Mr Bill Phipps to bring the papers in from Oxford. The summer days were a lot better, deliver the papers and then ...read more here
A memory of Wheatley contributed by Bill Middleton
Extracts From Wheatley & 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".