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Photographic Archive » Shipton
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The Heythrop Hunt Meet at The Crown, Shipton under Wychwood Date: possibly 1936
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Sir Oswald Mosley; pictured at The Shaven Crown, Shipton under Wychwood, whilst under house arrest. Date: 1943
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3rd Battalion Oxfordshire Home Guard photographed outside of The Shaven Crown, Shipton under Wychwood. Date: 1945, March
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View across The Green, Shipton under Wychwood, towards St.Mary's Church and the extension to Salisbury Place, the house on the right of the photograph. The Green has been extended and only one tree remains. The man walking across the Green is known as The Cider King from Lyneham.
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. View of The Residence from the South Lawn Date: 1913
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood View of Coldstone Farm House Date: 1913
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. View of Grove Farm House. Date: 1913
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood Aerial View (original photo) of Shipton Court and its immediate surroundings. Note (bottom left) the kitchen gardens and glasshouses, now the site of Court Close. Date: possibly about 1930s
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. Shipton Village celebrations on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - a dinner and sports in Shipton Court Walks. Date: 1897
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. West face of the Stable Block taken from the main road, High Street, with the entrance to the Wild Garden on the right. From the portfolio of Alfred Groves and Son of work done on the Court. Date: not known
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. View of the Court house from the gardens . Photo: possibly by Frank Packer of Chipping Norton. Date: not known.
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood. Photo of The Coursing Meet in the stable block yard at Shipton Court. Date: not known possibly 1920s.
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Shipton Court: Shipton under Wychwood Photo of The Heythrop Hunt assembling in Shipton High Street outside the Stable Block of Shipton Court. Photo: From negatives supplied by Mary McNeill (possibly Thomson) via Margaret Ware. Date: not known; possibly 1920s.
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This photograph was taken on the farm land before the building of houses in The Sands. Michael Bradley is the lad on the horse 'Bagtie'. Roy Ridley was the farmer of this land and Little Hill Farm. Bradleys then lived in a bungalow at the top of The Square nearest The Sands. W.R.Ridley owned cottages opposite. (see sale reference in the Oxford Times. Date: c.1933
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Group photograph taken at the Victory Thanksgiving after the Second World War. Date: 1946
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Junction of Upper End, Fiddlers Hill and Trot's Lane. Snowden House (right) Elm Cottage (part, left). c 1900
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Bradley's Garage forecourt 1980 ie before demolition to make way for Bradleys development 2003
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Bradleys under construction 2003
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Preparing the site for Bradleys development Shipton 2003. Consdierable soil had to be removed because of oil pollution caused during the Second World War when the garage was occupied by American forces.
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Bradleys Garage before demolition around 2002
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Bradleys garage before demolition to make way for the Bradleys development 2003
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The old telephone exchange in Shipton before conversion into a house
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Bank House High Street Shipton early 1900s
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Avery's yard with part of Pearce's House 1974, in Shipton
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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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