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Photographic Archive

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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Explore photographs from individual Wychwood villages, or browse collections devoted to people and transport. Each collection is maintained directly from the Society’s photographic archive.

Photographic Archive » Vehicles
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Car is Bob Coombe's. Car was very old and the date of photograph is put at around 1946
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Franklin family with donkey cart - Whitsun Monday. The two boys in front of the vehicle were Sydney and Alex, who were both killed in World War One. Date: 1901
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Mr Costiff who was the postman who carried mail from Chipping Norton to Shipton under Wychwood. Date: 1890-1900
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Horse and trap in front of Townsend stores, the precursor to Averys General Stores in Shipton. Believed to be Mr Townsend on the trap
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Two men on motor bike and sidecar. Man on motor bike is relative of Marilyn Watkins (Ernie)
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Dorothy Treweek of Shipton who, with her husband, used to deliver milk throughout the village. Photo probably taken late 1940s. Mrs Treweek died in 2018
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Court Farm Shipton in 1920s
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R J Bradley's Garage Station Road Shipton probably 1946. The car is a post war Austin Seven belonging to Bob Coombes as reported to Alan Vickers. United Woodworking Co Tillyard on the left.
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Milton Church Road c.1900. Identity of the individual is unknown, but an interesting vehicle.
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Oxford Bus opposite Baptist Chapel High Street Milton c.1920/30
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Lucy Dangerfield
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Robert 'Bob' Griffin with steam traction engine and plough
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Old tractor probably from the Hartley farm. Hartley's farm was Coldstone Farm with associated buildings on the L shaped bend coming out of Shipton near the Lamb. Another part of the farm was up at Five Ways where a very large house has recently been built.
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Tractor at Coldstone Farm about 1942 . Tom Turner with evacuee Jesse Hunt
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Reg Bradley in naval uniform just after WW1 on his motorbike. He founded Bradley's Garage in Shipton next to the main Tillyard on the Chipping Norton Road and was a close friend of Harry Combes
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Post Office and High Street, Milton under Wychwood. Probably 1940s
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Milton under Wychwood Haymaking at Poplar Farm with Mr and Mrs Wells
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Poplar Farm Milton under Wychwood
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Frog Lane Milton under Wychwood - Burrus family 1930s - view from Ravenswood across Frog lane to the woods around Shipton Court Lanes
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Green Lane Milton under Wychwood. The name on the cart is C A Wells. Mr Wells owned Poplar Farm in Milton
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Milton under Wychwood - The Green - Coronation 1937
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About the photographic archive

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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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