Artikelname: Around Abingdon
Artikelbeschreibung: This intriguing collection of over 200 old photographs of Abingdon shows life in the town and surrounding villages over a period of more than one hundred years. The photographs include examples from the Victorian camera of the prolific Henry Taunt, pictures from Morland's Brewery, Abingdon School and a variety of images of social and working life recorded by amateur and professional photographers over the years.The author is a well-known local writer and lecturer in local history and has provided a wealth of interesting background information to accompany these fascinating photogmphs. This volume will be of great interest to those familiar with Abingdon and its surrounds, and will be a thing of intrigue to those who are new to the region's charms.

Artikelname: Banbury
Artikelbeschreibung: The charming old market town of Banbury has seen many changes over the years, but none so dramatic as those of the twentieth century. This evocative collection of old photographs shows just how much life has changed for the town's people.These old scenes will bring back powerful memories for some and introduce new residents to a town that did not have streets filled with motor cars and had yet to expericnce supermarket shopping. This collection of around 200 photographs brings together pictures from over a century of Banbury's history, from street scenes of the 1870s to the social whirl of the 1960s. It will appeal to all who know Banbury and would relish a nostalgic look at its recent past.

Artikelname: Bicester and Otmoor
Artikelbeschreibung: This fascinating collection of over 200 old
photographs explores the town of Bicester and the surrounding settlements in the Otmoor area of Oxfordshire over a period of more than 100 years, providing a valuable pictorial record of the local landscape, people and events that have shaped the history of this region.Through these pictures we catch a glimpse of a way of life that has long since vanished and gain an insight into the everyday life of the people of Bicester and Otmoor: their work, schools, leisure pursuits and special occasions. The images in this book present a complete tour of the region-beginning in Bicester and its surrounding villages through to the 'seven towns' of Otmoor and the parishes on their periphery-recording the changing townscapes, fashions and social and working practices that have been seen here over the past century. This book will be enjoyed by all who know and love Bicester and Otmoor, evoking poignant memories for local residents and introducing those new to the area to the rich heritage of this part of Oxfordshire.

Artikelname: Oxford in the 1950s and 1960s
Artikelbeschreibung: Oxford in the 1950's and 1960's offers a rare glimpse of life in the city during this fascinating period, which started with post-war austerity and ended with Britain becoming the music and fashion capital of the world. However, as this amazing collection of 200 photographs, drawn from the library of Newsquest Oxfordshire, show, there is much more to these two decades than pop groups and mini-skirts, and it reveals the lives of ordinary people which have been captured by skilled photographers. Including views of Oxford's streets and buildings, shops and businesses, pubs and hotels, cafes and restaurants, the Colleges and University departments, as well as some of the villages which form the suburbs of the city, this delightful book is sure to appeal to all who remember these decades and everyone who knows and loves this vibrant city.

Artikelname: Oxfordshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: The first public railway in Oxfordshire was the Great Western main line which entered the county near Goring, opening in June 1840. Thereafter the Great Western was the dominant railway force in the county, absorbing all its rivals including the London & North Western's Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (which offered a poor enough service to become known as the 'Old Worse and Worse'!). This book details the history of all the county's lines, from their Victorian heyday to the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. Many lines were lost, but ironically the one that bucked the trend is the London & North Western, its lines to Oxford and Islip reopening in 1987 and 1989 respectively. Stations featured among the book's 52 photographs are: Kelmscott & Langford, Launton, Oxford Rewley Road, Chipping Norton, Thame, Blenheim & Woodstock, Eynsham, South Leigh, Witney, Brize Norton & Bampton, Carterton, Alvescott, Sarsden, Rollright, Hook Norton, Bloxham, Adderbury, Banbury Merton Street, Morris Cowley, Horspath, Wheatley, Tiddington, Chinnor, Kingston Crossing, Aston Rowant, Lewknor, Watlington, Yarnton, Bletchington, Fritwell & Somerton, Cropredy, Blackthorn, Ardley, Port Meadow, Oddington, and Wendlebury.

Artikelname: Thame to Watlington
Artikelbeschreibung: Since the development of photography in the middle of the nineteenth century, the
picture of our past provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or the failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of former times, the photograph. Authenticating even as it
describes, the photograph is of its time in a way that other representations of the past are not.This photographic portrait of a period at once familiar and remote illustrates the recent history of that part of Oxfordshire which shelters beneath the Chiltern Hills. Bisected nowadays by the M40, the region still comprises a variety of small villages exuding their ancient charm, but modern-day change has not passed by entirely, and those who know the area will be surprised by these visual reminders of the railways which once served it or of the pillow lace makers who populated it. Agriculture was and is the area's major industry, however, and the continuity it has provided, in spite of mechanization, has thankfully enabled much of the past pictured here to survive into the present.Centred on the two market towns of Thame and Watlington, bordered by the larger towns of Chinnor, Ewelme, Chalgrove and the Miltons, this fascinating selection includes many smaller communities like Postcombe and Sydenham. It offers a trip down memory lane for those who still remember, for others, a voyage of discovery.

Artikelname: Vale of the White Horse
Artikelbeschreibung: This fascinating collection of ovet 200 photographs and illustrations skillfully portrays various aspects of how life in the Vale of the White Horse used to be. Through images depicting scenes, people, places and eyents from everyday life, the reader is taken on a wide ranging guided tour of towns such as Wantage, Abingdon, Faringdon, Shrivenham and the villages in between which comprise the Vale.One of the attractive features within these pages is the inclusion of some local characters such as Ann Sheard, who was born, bred and lived all her life in West Hanney, and Frederick Ayris, a local horse-shoer and blacksmith who worked the forge at Garford and had learnt the trade from his
father. The importance of the iron foundries of Wantage Engineering Co. and Nalder & Nalder at East Challow in helping to form the heritage of the area is also documented, as well as the significance of the canal-building era which greatly aided such industrial activity.