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Explore the people, places and everyday life of the Wychwoods through our growing collection of historic photographs.

The archive brings together images of village streets, families, buildings, schools, farming, celebrations, transport and community life across more than a century.

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Photographic Archive » People
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Mr and Mrs Fred Burrus, parents of Mrs Win Viner
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Frog Lane Milton under Wychwood. Lady not identified. Probably early 1950s
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Stan Burson building council houses. From left: Stan Burson, Dave Dalton, Jack Townsend. John Rawlings estimates this was taken in 1940s/1950s because Dave Dalton came to Shipton during the Second World War
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Frog Lane Milton under Wychwood - Horace Burrus 1930s. Off to work
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Stan Burson in his garden in retirement 1950s/1960s
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Mr and Mrs Stan Burson with Rose Burson's mother on her mother's 100th birthday in 1965
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Mr and Mrs Barnes of Woodbury near Newbury, maternal grandparents of Mrs Rose Burson. Mr Barnes was a gamekeeper and the family lived in the building behind the photograph
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Party for the committee of The Wychwood Magazine probably late 1990s. Back row left to right: Heather Derkacz, Cathy Pearce, Marion Ray, Beryl Brown,Ray Derkacz.Jean Harris, Tony Boardman, Doreen Barnes, Reg Ray Front row left to right: Winifred Swann, Capt Swann, Rita Sheering Lucas, Pam Perfect
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Eric Mathews of the flour milling family 1914
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Shipton young people waiting for the bus by the Green 1948 or 1949 From left to right Mary Hovard, Roy Maggs, Norman Duester, Godfrey Pittaway, Gordon Duester, David Dolton, Margaret Adams (Hackling), Nancy Watton
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Gordon Duester with his brother Norman in his mother's arms. Shipton Fiddlers Hill
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Chlldren on Fiddlers Hill, Shipton under Wychwood. Shows standpipe serving the local cottages. Could be Charles Duester (Gordon's father) with pail?
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Gordon Duester on right. Left to right at back are his brother in law Cecil, Charles Duester, Gordon's mother. In front is his brother Norman holding an unidentified child and his sister Janet with another unidentified child
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Group of Flying Corp members in France during the First World War. The man on left of middle row is Kenneth Strong, son of John Strong who was Headmaster of Shipton School 1904-1925
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John Strong on left, Headmaster of Shipton School from 1904 to 1925 supervising the digging of a trench by the First World War equivalent of the Home Guard. He was the eldest son of George Strong who was awarded the VC for outstanding bravery at the Battle of Sebastopol in 1855
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Charles Dore in about 1910, an itinerant hurdlemaker going from farm to farm cutting ash and willow as required. He was also later, a carter for Roy Ridley in Milton. Grandfather of Harold Dore. Died aged 82
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Mervyn Dore July 1928
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Agnes Dore and friend either at their home at Farnworth or according to John Rawlins behind present Jasmine Cottage
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Harold and Annie Miles with Alice Longshaw
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Outside the Shaven Crown. Left standing - John Longshaw, sailor Pascoe, Dan Faulkner standing in cap, Ted Metcalfe, Landlord Mr Pascoe
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Leslie Longshaw as a young man born 1911 in London and brought up by grandparents in Shipton. Died London 1990
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Thomas Longshaw born 1859 Shipton died Shipton 1921 and Alfred Longshaw born 1883 Shipton died London 1953
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Helen Hodge as a young woman. Grandmother of Leslie Longshaw
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Helen Longshaw aged about 86 at Cottage New Barn
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Images shown online are lower-resolution copies. High-resolution versions may be available from the Society on request.

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A further selection of photographs relating to the Wychwoods can be explored through Oxfordshire County Council’s Heritage Search.

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About the collection. Members of the Society who carried out scans of John Rawlins’ extensive photographic archive included Alan Murphy, Alan Vickers, Peter Crofts, Chris Bailey, Chris Trotman, Edwin Wilson, Ian Drainer and Janet Wiltshire.

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