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- 4 photos on Charlbury appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Charlbury
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The Marlborough
The white building in the picture below the church tower was the Marlborough pub. During the war through till the early 1950s my grandmother and grandfather were licencees and my father was brought up there. I have a picture of my grandfather and myself as a small child in the back yard of the pub. I'm not sure when it stopped being a pub - my grandmother left after my grandfather died in 1953, but the last time I went to Charlbury it was a private house.
Contributed by Diana Larkworthy
Oxfordshire memories
The Marlborough
The white building in the picture below the church tower was the Marlborough pub. During the war through till the early 1950s my grandmother and grandfather were licencees and my father was brought up there. I have a picture of my grandfather and myself as a small child in the back yard of the pub. I'm not sure when it stopped being a pub - my grandmother left after my grandfather died in 1953, but the last time I went to Charlbury it was a private house.
A memory of Charlbury contributed by Diana Larkworthy
The Bell Inn, Long Hanborough
I have a long line of ancestors from the Jarrett and Maisey families who were born in Long Hanborough.
James Maisey, born in 1852, was originally a game keeper who became landlord of the Bell Inn in the late 1880s. He and his wife Mary Ann (my great-great aunt) had at least ten children. Among them was Frederick Thomas Maisey, who joined the Police Force and worked in Romford, where he met his wife.
After he retired, Frederick took over as landlord at the Bell Inn, which I believe they ran for several years, into the 1940s. They used to keep pigs in the back yard.
Escape to the country
I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life. When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel. My next thought was I am going to work in that hotel, which I did! I was also able to live-in, as other staff also did. The White Hart at that time was a privately run hotel with a friendly informal atmosphere, especially in the public bar which was very popular with local residents. The hotel was originally a coaching inn, and was one of the last, if not the last, to be used as such. The White Hart was also ...read more here
A memory of Chipping Norton contributed by Jane MacCallum
Extracts From Charlbury & Oxfordshire books
What a peaceful scene is captured here on camera. It is early morning in Charlbury, an Oxfordshire village on the River Evenlode. The proprietor of J L Brooks' ironmongery shop has not yet opened the shop's wrought iron entrance gate. Albert Bowen, licensee of the Hunt, Edmunds & Co pub is not yet serving Banbury ales, wines and spirits. But for the young girl with the satchel on her back, the start of another school day beckons.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited 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".