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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 smell.
I would fetch the bread from the bakery and see it being taken from the ovens on spatulas on long poles. I would walk to school through the alleyways between the thatched cottages.
The school was wonderful - having come from a large town school,... Read more
The Queens Head
As the ex-landlord of the Queens Head in Eynsham have many fond memories of the village and my customers, and cricket club of which I was president-1975-78.
Known as the village with the most pubs, of which i have visited all, including a race in which the contestants had to drink a pint at each pub, i finished some what worse for wear, but happy. Carnival day was a great day for publican with an extension, , it was not unusual to run out of glasses, although everybody behaved and enjoyed themselves. Great village, great people.
Jim Rand
Get Them in Quick
My mother Pamela Gaskins has often spoken of her days working at the sterling cinema. She was cashier there and has told me she could get a full house in within half-hour, the cheapest being 9 old pennies, the most expensive 3 shillings. Giving change and no automative calculators, quite a feat of mental agility.
Oxford Road
I lived at 253 Oxford Road in the 1950s. Visited the old house in 2006 while visiting from Canada.
Grove Farm
in the late 1960s we moved to 32 Yarnton Road. My dad and grandad worked the land of Grove Farm before the housing development took place. During 1970s an archaeological excavation took place in the area surrounding Moat Cottage. I did my fair share of trench digging. We found a few walls, some pottery and that was about it! Hats off to Time Team, they do it in 3 days, we had months...
I Used to Live Along There
I moved to 274, Oxford Road with my family in 1959. I lived there until marrying in 1978. The school bus collected me from outside my house and took me to Begbroke. At age 14 I moved to a school in Oxford City and caught the public bus thereafter.
This photograph is taken from the playing fields of Magdalen College School and shows the Botanical Gardens.
