Month / September 2024
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Up the tower, down the tower and for a short while locked in the tower.
I’m attempting to climb all the towers in Oxford. The body being willing. And so, as the festival of Michaelmas approaches (29 September, traditionally one of the four quarter days that marked…
September 28, 2024 -
The end of the season at Hinksey Pool
While we’ve had clear blue skies this past week, there’s been an early morning nip in the air. The sun is lower in the sky, the leaves are turning, and the nights…
September 21, 2024 -
Kazem Hakimi – Fish and chip shop photographer
Kazem Hakimi has run the fish and chip shop at the far end of the Iffley Road for the past 36 years. It’s an old school takeaway. A narrow frontage in a…
September 14, 2024 -
A walk to Turner’s tomb (from St John Street to Shipton-on-Cherwell)
From Wittgenstein to Thom Yorke many remarkable people have resided in the honey stone terraced houses of St John Street in central Oxford, built to accommodate the growing number of tradespeople serving…
September 7, 2024
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