Stanley C Jenkins was born in London but moved to Witney, where he still lives, in 1956 and attended Witney Grammar School, now Henry Box. After studying history at Lancaster and Leicester universities, he became a teacher. He has written about 35 books on local history, and his latest is Oxford Suburbs & Villages Through Time (Amberley, £14.99), featuring old photographs alongside his own colour pictures of the same scene taken today.

It covers North Oxford, Headington, Cowley, Iffley — and Wytham and Beckley.