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Shotover Hill maps
Historic maps of Shotover Hill and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Shotover Hill maps
Shotover Hill photos
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Shotover Hill area books
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Wests in Cowley
I was born and brought up in Cowley. We lived at 169 Oxford Road which now belongs to Emmaus I believe. Across the road was a large old cottage which during the war was used to house evacueee and the Post Office was next door. When I was young I belonged to the Better Britain Brigade. I have photos taken in St James Hall if anyone is interested, with Fathers Whye and Beacham. I attended church at both St James and St Luke's (where I was later married). I remember spending happy hours in the snow on the golf course. Behind our garden was the swimming pool and library which we used a great deal. My parent Phil and Gladys West owned the West Stores on the corner of Hollow Way and Crescent Road and I used to deliver groceries to Horspath when I was older. In 1964 my family and I emigrated to Australia. Evelyn Hutt (nee West)
Hutt's in Horspath.
I was born in a house halfway up Cuddeston Road hill but at about 3 years old my family moved down into the village where we lived at Shipley House, next door to the Chapel and over the road from the village green. I remember watching (from my bedroom window) the village fair at night on the green with all the pretty lights on the roundabout and the fair music. I attended the village primary school from 1960 to 1963, before emigrating to Australia in 1964, and remember the icy cold walks to and from school in winter, the frozen school milk being thawed next to wood heaters in the classrooms and the very high ceiling in one of the class rooms. I remember attending Sunday School at St Giles' Church and just once being allowed to ring the church bells. We used to go walking on Shotover Hill and would play up there for hours. I revisited Horspath in 1991 and again in 2008. So much is still as... Read more
This photograph is taken from the playing fields of Magdalen College School and shows the Botanical Gardens.
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 of IOW recently deceased in distressing circumstances, (commission for an independant review regarding social services re providing for Miss Thomas 2005)
Edmund Not Alban
This photograph is of St Edmund Hall, affectionately known as 'Teddy Hall', which by common consent is the oldest seat of learning in the University of Oxford. Founded in the early 13th century by St Edmund of Abingdon, who lectured in the old church of St Peter in the East, which is now the college library. St Edmund later became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Scholars of St Edmund Hall are renowned for their prowess on the sports field, on the river and in the bar. Some of us can also do joined up riting.
Peter Britton (SEH 1973).
Music And Dancing at The 2009 Oxford Folk Festival
One of the many items on the Oxford "tourist trail" is a weekend long folk festival which is supported by dozens of morris dancing sides from all over England. This year Whitethorn Morris appeared for the first time and brought a huge side of 12 dancers and almost as many musicians!
The dance events take place mainly in the pedestrianised streets of the city centre and the last "spot" on Sunday afternoon was a massed stand by all the performers in the courtyard of the former prison! This was something of a surreal experience as the backdrop were rows of barred cell windows and the crowd of spectators sat on stone steps snapping away with cameras!
Whitethorn put on displays of dancing in half a dozen venues during the day but the one I remember most is standing in the middle of the Cornmarket playing my piano accordian with the Whitethorn Band surrounded by many Japanese tourists taking pictures!
It was a really enjoyable... Read more
The 2010 Oxford Folk Festival
This view shows just one of the many venues for the 2010 Oxford Folk Festival, a weekend long festival of music, song and dancing including a grand parade through the city on Saturday morning. Thousands of residents and tourists looked on as hundreds of performers from all around the country provided the entertainment. I was there with my fellow dancers and musicians from Whitethorn Morris - a lively team of women clog dancers and their mixed band from Harrow.
Although it was early April, the sun shone brightly and crowds thronged the streets to watch as we provided jigs and polkas for the clog dancers. It was a lovely day to remember and I hope very much that the organisers of this annual event will continue.
