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  • 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
  • Peter Forbes, market trader.

    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,”…

    July 27, 2024
    Inside markets & outside fairs, Trade and Industry
  • Chris Raworth, fairground model maker

    I was delighted to be invited to meet Chris Raworth at his workshop in Middle Barton, catching him just after he had assembled his set of gallopers for the last…

    June 8, 2024
    Dodos & other Oxford animals, Feasts & festivities, Inside markets & outside fairs, Oxford portraits
  • At the Sign of the Three Blackbirds

    Imagine if you could design your own currency. Decide on an image to represent you, pop in your initials, a date and a pretty border, make the die, and then…

    February 3, 2024
    Builders and buildings, Inside markets & outside fairs, Trade and Industry
  • An Oxford Bulb Bonanza

    This weekend will mark the 10th anniversary of our annual charity Christmas bulb sale. Let’s face it we all need something to cheer us up during that long stretch between…

    December 9, 2023
    Flora and fauna, Inside markets & outside fairs
  • Making the post – Oxford’s Victorian letterboxes

    You see them all over Oxford.  A Victorian invention, standing solidly on the city’s pavements and street corners, or sunk into ancient walls, elegant in design, cheerily welcoming in their…

    December 2, 2023
    Builders and buildings, General, Inside markets & outside fairs
  • David John, the last butcher in Oxford’s Covered Market

    Next year is the 250th anniversary of Oxford’s Covered Market. Tucked away behind its elegant classical frontage on the High Street, its grid like layout of avenues reaching back to…

    November 18, 2023
    Inside markets & outside fairs
  • Rupert Griffin, Tiddly Pommes

    Rupert Griffin is fast approaching his busiest time of year when I meet him at the farm just outside Oxford, where he runs his apple pressing operation, Tiddly Pommes. Looking…

    September 30, 2023
    Flora and fauna, Inside markets & outside fairs, It’s all in a name
  • Foden returns to the fair

    Robert Nichols is surrounded by a group of admirers when he’s pointed out to me last Sunday morning. It was set up day for St Giles Fair, the two-day bonanza…

    September 9, 2023
    Feasts & festivities, Inside markets & outside fairs
  • Peter Forbes, Market Trader

    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,”…

    August 2, 2023
    Inside markets & outside fairs

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