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Photographic Archive » Shipton
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Shipton C of E School c.1929
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United Woodworking Co's Station Road Shipton Workshop probably in the early 1930s and taken looking towards the end of the making shop. The man front left is Charlie Norgrove. The man facing away from the camera second on the right is Jaybee Broom. On his left is Jim Slatter and on the extreme right is Sid Tierney.
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Shipton under Wychwood C of E Primary School 1929
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Group from St Michael's Home Shipton under Wychwood 1931
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Two cottages on the Eastern side of Station Road Shipton. One is the former home of R.W.N. Goss, one time secretary at F.W.P.Matthews Mill. Called Falklands because of his connection with the Goss of the Falklands islands. Built by Matthews for their staff. No sign of Station Road Garage or the Till Yard. Probably taken around 1920
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Mr Bradley, groundsman at Michael's Home in Shipton: 1930
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Ye Olde Junk Shop in former St Michael's Home c1980
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View from the ball on top of the church spire taken by J Wells of Burford on June 27th 1893
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Former St Michael's Home Shiption prior to demolition in 1989
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Lane House Farm House, Milton Road, Shipton under Wychwood. Date: c. 1947 (See also Sue Jourdan's photos October 1999)
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Former St Michael's Home under demolition 1989
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The Green, Shipton under Wychwood, in the snow. The Crown sign is on the left and Church Street on the right. Date: 1900s
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Entrance to site of former St Michael's Home Shipton 1990
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The Green, showing allotments bordered by a wall. A man working up the telegraph pole. There is no seat around the tree at this date. Also photo taken pre-metal plates on the Cospatrick Memorial. Water coming out of fountain Date: c. late 1920s. Photo from a postcard
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Willis Court Shipton under construction May 1993
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Stock Sale at The Crown, Shipton under Wychwood. Stock sales were held monthly on land belonging to The Crown Inn; now the site of the Wychwood Bowls Club. (See newspaper articles (ELW0121) for sales details.
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Gordon Duester, Philip Pittaway, Brian Saxby, Gerald Cox, Doris Colletts, Malcolm Cox, Fred Saxby. This is late 1940s in Shipton, Upper End. Note the external tap serving families in that corner of the village
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Shipton hospital fete 1921. Two adults believed to be Harry Hedger and Eric Steed. Leslie Longshaw on right in pointed hat and holding a flag. Mary Barnes is blonde girl in pointed hat
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Old Waterhouse, Simons Lane Upper End. 1990.
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Shipton fete 1920 with Tom Powell and Charles Duester
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Shipton. Upper End. Barry Don cottage erected by Jack Hawkes in 1920s.
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Shipton hospital fete carnival 1922. Includes George Bartlett, Henry Pittaway and Frank Wright but exact order not known
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Shipton. Upper End. Barry Don 1920s Bungalow now replaced by so-called Ecological House. Was lived in by Mr and Mrs Harris.
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The cottage, Fiddlers Hill, Shipton. The far cottage in the row in the centre was of J. Wilkinson. The couple are George (d.1940) and Amy Eliza Smith (d.1958), who lived in the cottage from 1922. The cottage was by then two made into one. It was lived in by members of 3 generations until 1957. Amy Eliza's daughter also Amy, stayed during the war with her three children while husband Hector was away. Amy Eliza's grand-daughter, also Amy, lived there with her grandmother, her husband Eric McShea and their children until 1957.
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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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