OXFORD Preservation Trust celebrated 90 years of protecting the city and its historic views.

The trust was launched in 1927 and today has 2,000 members and looks after 1,000 acres of city land.

Over the past nine decades it has achieved a number of successes including the redevelopment of Oxford Castle and the introduction of the Oxford Open Doors festival.

It also restored the Martyr's Memorial in St Giles' and Victoria Fountain at the Plain Roundabout.

It has also regularly involved itself in the planning process, commenting on a large amount of planning applications over the years.

Members and directors came together on Saturday in The Painted Rooms in Cornmarket Street - the Trust's former offices - to celebrate the anniversary.

Director, Debbie Dance, said: "I am forever grateful to those great Oxford names who had such vision not only buying key areas of land but recognising that they would not stop change but could guide it, keeping the best of the old and encouraging the best of the new.

"It is amazing to have the chance to celebrate Oxford Preservation Trust's 90 years of achieving great things for Oxford.

"We are in a great place and look forward to our 100th."