Book puts North Oxford life in picture (From Oxford Mail)

Book puts North Oxford life in picture

10:00am Monday 22nd June 2009

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MEMBERS of St Michael and All Angels Church youth club in North Oxford are pictured at Regent’s Park after arriving in London to visit the Festival of Britain in June 1951.

Among those seen in David Mander’s picture are Reg Cooper, Peter Brown, Rosemary Clinkard, Elizabeth Cochrane, Rita Hill, Ian Gass, Mickey Allen, John Greenway, Marion Rhymes, Maureen Selby, Johnny Allen, Bill Norridge, Brian Coates, Ivor Lee, Pat Hooker, John Green, Joan Gass, John Hobday, Di Bedford and Mary Brown.

The festival, which King George VI had opened the previous month, was designed to show what was best about Britain and give the nation a tonic as it slowly recovered from six years of war.

The other picture, right, shows a group at the Kings Arms pub in Banbury Road, Oxford, at a Coronation party.

Take a good look at the ‘bride’– Harry ‘Chub’ Cook, who was ‘marrying‘ her groom, George Carpenter.

The two pictures are among dozens which appear in The Changing Faces of Summertown and Cutteslowe Book Two, the 65th in the series of local history books from Robert Boyd Publications, of Witney, available at local bookshops.

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