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- 67 photos on Witney appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Witney
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Cadel shop - Market Square
The shop in the middle of the picture with the two awnings (now the Nationwide building society) used to belong to my great grandmother Eva Cadel and was a wool and toy shop. My Grandmother and Great Aunt ran it until 1971. My grandmother Joan ran the toy side and my Great Aunt Mary ran the wool. Many people still today tell me that their first pram/doll/train set came from the Cadel shop. Pictures such as these are very special and are a treasure.
Contributed by Nicola Best
Oxfordshire memories
Cadel shop - Market Square
The shop in the middle of the picture with the two awnings (now the Nationwide building society) used to belong to my great grandmother Eva Cadel and was a wool and toy shop. My Grandmother and Great Aunt ran it until 1971. My grandmother Joan ran the toy side and my Great Aunt Mary ran the wool. Many people still today tell me that their first pram/doll/train set came from the Cadel shop. Pictures such as these are very special and are a treasure.
A memory of Witney contributed by Nicola Best
Flying from Brize Norton
Although I have been to RAF Brize Norton a few times I have never actually seen the place with the name Brize Norton as each time I have on army duty and taking off on an RAF plane!
In the 1970s I flew with members of my regiment several times to Germany and Malta and RAF Brize Norton supplied the transport each time.
A memory of Brize Norton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
A child's memories of Eynsham
I lived in Eynsham for just 6 months when I was 9 years old. My mother was doing her health visitor training in Oxford and so from Monday to Friday we lived in a rented cottage in the village and I attended the local school. At the weekends, we returned to the family home in Stafford. I have such happy and vivid memories of that episode in my life; it seemed to me that we had stepped back in time to some bygone era. I shared a bed with my mother - the mattress was made of horsehair and it was lumpy and tickly. We had a paraffin stove that made me feel sick at times, I did not like the ...read more here
A memory of Eynsham contributed by Sue Carlyon
Extracts From Witney & Oxfordshire books
Witney, in the west of the county, has long been famous for its links with the wool trade, as well as the manufacture
of blankets, which have been produced here for over 700 years. The market was held around the 17th-century
Buttercross in the centre of the town.
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".