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But we are proud to say that Alan Vickers contributed 13 entries already.
We were recently preparing to put the History Society’s Second Wychwoods Album (first published in 1990) on the Society’s website, and we came across this rather striking photograph of Maria Matthews. There was little context and we had to think about which part of the Wychwoods she belonged. An approach to one of the Society’s […]
by ALAN VICKERS This article is also available as a PDF, downloadable here. Wooden cash tills, usually with an opening on the top to accommodate a paper roll, were common in small shops throughout the country until about the 1970s. More often than not such cash tills came from workshops in Shipton under Wychwood. From […]
The following article by Alan Vickers is based on the written notes of Jeff Broxholme, who has lived at Milton under Wychwood since 1969. An idyllic Life – Living by an old Oxfordshire Mill before and during the Second World War His family lived very simply but Jeff Broxholme still remembers his early life at […]
