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RAC's Summertown office was on call to help members
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
THESE were the days when the RAC had a base in Oxford.
St John Ambulance volunteers were up to scratch
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
ST JOHN Ambulance volunteers were always expected to look smart.
Steeple Aston pram racers outpaced spectators
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
ON WHAT looks like a fairly steep hill, these pram racers were able to get up quite a speed.
Postcard marked passing of Oxford's trams
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
FEW tears were shed when the horse-drawn trams disappeared from Oxford’s streets.
The changing face of Great Milton
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
PUB and church united for a pig roast at the King’s Head in 1977 to raise money for the church restoration fund. Nearly 200 people, including the vicar, the Rev Eric Barker, turned out to support the event, organised by mine hosts David and Lyn Pope.
Shrapnel souvenirs of Oxford soldier's time in trenches
10:00am Monday 15th March 2010
THE Willmot family have treasured mementos from their grandfather’s Army career – two pieces of shrapnel.
Morris Motors' Home Guard in frame
10:00am Monday 8th March 2010
THESE are the smart men who formed the Home Guard unit at Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford, during the Second World War.
The changing face of Wallingford
10:00am Monday 8th March 2010
THE town’s day centre took delivery of a new television set and two armchairs in 1981, thanks to Wallingford Round Table. Rotarians and people who used the centre are pictured when the gifts were handed over.
Scout 'roostabout' got fetes in spin
10:00am Monday 8th March 2010
THE 41st Oxford Scout troop found a clever way to make money.
Minor rural railway had a grand name
10:00am Monday 8th March 2010
WHILE it may have rejoiced in the grand title of the Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway, this thread of silver rails across north Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds was very much a backwater of the Great Western Railway.
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