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  • Power to the people of OsneyMay 24, 2025
  • On Port Meadow with Alan Trinder and friendsMay 17, 2025
  • Adventures with my mother and a Morris OxfordMay 10, 2025
  • The miraculous preservation of Oxford’s ‘Painted Room’May 3, 2025
  • Richard Lawrence, letterpress printerApril 26, 2025

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A spicy mix of Oxford stories from a house once belonging to a city sausage maker.

  • Power to the people of Osney

    This month we are raising a glass to ten years of clean energy produced by the island’s hydro-electric power station. Owned by the locals it is the latest in a long line of ways by which for centuries they have harnessed the power of their most valuable resource.

    May 24, 2025
    Trade and Industry, Washhouses & other watery places
  • On Port Meadow with Alan Trinder and friends

    I’d been invited by Alan Trinder to watch him fly. “I’ll be at Port Meadow between 7.30 and 11.30 in the morning,” said the email he sent the night before.…

    May 17, 2025
    Angels & other flying things
  • Adventures with my mother and a Morris Oxford

    The rather crumpled picture above is the only one I have of my mother somewhere on her remarkable journey to the other side of the world in 1950. Exactly 75 years ago.

    May 10, 2025
    General
  • The miraculous preservation of Oxford’s ‘Painted Room’

    Just over a week ago, on April 23rd to be exact, I joined a jolly parade of University and City dignitaries robed in a fine collection of scarlet, fur and velvet…

    May 3, 2025
    Builders and buildings, Flora and fauna
  • Richard Lawrence, letterpress printer

    I’d arranged to meet Richard Lawrence at his studios in Hurst Street, a short cycle ride east from Oxford’s Magdalen Bridge. There’s a yard at the front, so disconcertingly full…

    April 26, 2025
    Books and book folk, Trade and Industry
  • Springtime on the Cherwell

    On a sunny day last week, I take advantage of the weather to embark on a walk along a stretch of the River Cherwell suggested by my friend Bea. Starting…

    April 19, 2025
    Flora and fauna
  • Ruskin’s Road.

    The undergraduates had been intending to spend the day playing cricket, tennis or on the river rowing. But such was Ruskin’s power of persuasion that he convinced them to not only attend his lecture instead, (he was one of those rare academics who could fill a lecture theatre at 9 a.m.) but to sign up for a project that he believed would put their physical prowess to more purposeful use. Building a road.

    April 12, 2025
    Builders and buildings
  • Searching for the snake’s head

    The snake’s head fritillary has something of an iconic status in Oxford. It’s our county flower. And at this time of year locals race to be the first to spot…

    April 5, 2025
    Flora and fauna
  • In the footsteps of Joe Pullen

    Josiah Pullen liked to walk. Believing the exercise helped him stay ‘vigorous and healthy’, he made the same journey every day for 57 years. Sometimes both in the morning and evening.

    March 29, 2025
    Oxford portraits
  • So long Peter Forbes, the brass man 1941-2025

    Peter Forbes, has been setting up at Gloucester Green market since six thirty in the morning when I arrive at nine. You can’t miss him. “I’ve got the best pitch,” he grins from behind his peaked baseball hat. “I get to choose because I’ve been here the longest. When people come round the corner from George St, I’m the first stall they see – all these shiny things.”

    March 22, 2025
    Inside markets & outside fairs
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