2021 – 2022 Programme
Walks for 2022
Three walks are now being offered to members and their friends during the summer; all are on Mondays and start in the early evening when the crowds are enjoying dinner and the traffic has hopefully become quieter. In Lower Radley the latter may not be such a problem but it should help in Oxford. These excursions are:
| Walk title | Content -& distance | Leader[s] | Start time | Cost |
| The Old Half Timbered Houses of Radley | A tour of Lower Radley’s collection of old dwellings and a visit to one of them – around a mile – flat | Richard Dudding
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6.30pm
June 27th Lower Radley |
£10
NOW FULLY BOOKED |
| Oxford and the Civil War | A tour of the places of interest during the siege of the royal court in Oxford – up to 2 miles – flat | Stephen Barker | 6.30pm
July 25th St Giles Oxford |
£10 |
| The Architecture of Oxford | A historical review of key buildings in the centre of Oxford, both ancient and modern – up to 2 miles – flat | Victoria Bentata | 6.30pm
August 15th TBA Oxford |
£10
NOW FULLY BOOKED |
The note describing the walks in a little more detail can be downloaded by following this link:
Summer walks 2022 summary booking note
May Meeting May 23rd
Our final talk for the spring programme was by Liz Woolley on May 23rd when she described ‘Child Labour in 19th century Oxfordshire.’ The poster is shown below:
On April 25th Richard Dudding described the Half timbered cottages of Lower Radley and the lives of their inhabitants. This will link with a walk of the site on June 27th. The poster is shown below.
May 23rd Meeting
The programme from Terry Randall’s March 28th talk on the ‘Lost Manor of the Fitzwaryns’ is shown below.
Our next talk is on February 28th in the War Memorial Hall at 8.00pm. Wendy Morrison will be describing the Lidar Survey of Chiltern Hill Forts, which added considerably to the knowledge of these Iron Age remains. Visitors are welcome – charge £3 – masks remain an encouraged option in these libertarian days. Fuller details on the poster below:
The last talk, on Monday 24th January@ 8.00pm, was a History of Abingdon Station and its branch line 1856- 1984 , given by Ivan Cadge. . See the poster below:
Abingdon railway poster V2rev.
The last event, on Monday November 22nd, was ‘Oxfordshire on Canvas’, by Marie-Louise Kerr. This talk described the exploration of the county that is possible by viewing works of art, and details of some of the artists who have worked in the area. See the poster for this event below:
Marie Louise Kerr poster 1a
Our two earlier posters for the Autumn 2021 season are shown below:
Poster Brize Norton
September meeting Janice Kinory – Salt
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2021 Spring Details of overall programme
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Posters for individual programmes are set out below.
- Poster for Sex, Drink and Death in the 17th century – Tim Healey
- 23rd March Poster for Zoom meeting Tim Healey
- February 23rd : Motopolis : Lord Nuffield and the Transformation of Oxford
- February Zoom meeting Motopolis poster
- September 29th: Liz Woolley on “Local connections with the Spanish Civil War”.
- Spanish war liz woolley programme
- October 27th: “Test Pit Possibilities at home, and recent archaeology in the Vale”
- Test pits AGM and archaeology review 2020 rev2
- November 24th: “The river at War”, an account by Bill King of the River Thames as an important strategic feature and industrial contributor in the Second World War.
- November Zoom meeting Thames at war
- January 26th The Otmoor Riots in a wider context – Ciaran Walsh
- January Zoom meeting Otmoor
- OUR SPRING 2021SEASON : We did succeed in holding two ‘face to mask’ meetings before the lockdown forced us onto Zoom. The programme until May is shown above. This will continue on Zoom until we can use the village hall again.