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(Opposite The Police Station)

A List of  the Talks

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Title

Date

Speaker

Ruskin's Oxford

1/16/2000

John Ashdown

History of the Botanical Gardens

3/21/2000

 Louisa Allen

Wolvercote Paper Mill

4/18/2000

Martin Maw

Barnes Wallis

6/20/2000

Hugh Grainger

The Seven Towns of Otmoor

3/20/2001

Mr & Mrs Wal

King Alfred; Facts and Fiction

4/17/2001

Tim Porter

 Oxford's Paper House -The House

6/19/2001

 Rob Kinchin-Smith

 Oxford's Paper House - John Powell

6/19/2001

Robert Sephton

Stained Glass - 8th Century Onwards

11/21/2001

 David Clarke

The Golden Age of Coaching

12/11/2001

Martin Way

From Great Exhibition to Millennium Dome

1/15/2002

Andy Dunn

Social History From Old Photographs

2/19/2002

Nigel Hammond

Blenheim Palace

3/19/2002

John Edwards

The Great Western Railway in the Thames Valley

4/16/2002

Lawrence Waters

The Cotswolds in the Wars of the Roses

5/21/2002

Tim Porte

The History of Bells and Bell Ringing

10/15/2002

Barry Davis

The Magic Lantern

11/19/2002

Barry Davis

Mediæval Women

12/17/2002

Tim Porter

National Parks

1/21/2003

Adrian Thornton

The History of Keys

2/16/2003

J Stone

The Home Front

3/18/2003

Martin Way

Churchill

5/2/2003

Trevor Williams

SS Great Britain Story

11/18/2003

 

The changing Face of a seaside Town (Weymouth)

12/16/2003

Ron Clifton

The Witney Blanket Mills

1/20/2004

Charles Gott

The Bliss Tweed Mills

2/17/2004

Rob Evans

Trench Life in WW1

4/20/2004

Murrey Maclean

The Development of Printed Maps of Oxfordshire

5/18/2004

John Leighfield

The Reeve's Tale

1/18/2005

Hugh Grainger

J. J. Faulkner. Oxford Grocer, Pacifist, Temperance Advocate

4/19/2005

Robert Sephton

Dipping Into Wells

10/18/2005

Angela Spencer-Harper

Holywell Cemetery: An Oxford Secret

11/15/2005

Janet Keene

Religion, Politics and Magic in the Thames Valley

12/13/2005

Manfred Brod

Oxford Castle and Prison

1/17/2006

Kate Wharburton

The Truth About Rasputin

2/21/2006

Hugh Grainger

The Oxford Bus and Morris Museums

3/21/2006

Mick Freeman

The Gateway To London

11/21/2006

John Wallford

The History of Kennington

12/12/2006

George Ross

The Work House

1/16/2007

Peter Higginbotham

Oxford Postal History

2/20/2007

Godfrey Townsend

The History of the Police

3/20/2007

John Woolley

Oxfordshire Castles

4/17/2007

Trevor Rowley

Trafalgar Seamen

5/15/2007

Derek Aynsford

The Parish of St. Thomas the Martyr, Oxford

12/11/2007

Liz Woolley

Oxford Historical Pageant - 1907

3/18/2008

Martin Harris

Those Wild Wild Women! How Did a Group of Ordinary Girls Finish up as Pirate, Highwaymen, Criminal Masterminds and Pony Express Riders?

4/15/2008

Hugh Grainger

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