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Finstock Local History Society: November 2008
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Finstock Local History Society. Finstock Club Day c.1900. Links to this post. FYNSTOKE TO FINSTOCK: A Short History. Finstock, together with its neighbours Charlbury, Fawler and Leafield, used to lie in a clearing in. Wychwood Forest that stretched from Woodstock to Burford. During the early part of the twentieth century the principal occupations in Finstock were glove-making at the village hall site, carried out by women, while the men and boys worked as agricultural labourers on the land. Today mos...
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Finstock Local History Society: April 2007
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Finstock Local History Society. Threat to Oxfordshire Studies. From Chris Hall, convenor, Oxfordshire Local History Liaison Group (OHLG). Oxfordshire Studies (formerly Centre for Oxfordshire Studies) at risk. This message is addressed to all local history societies (for which I have e-mail addresses and various other persons) likely to be interested. On Tuesday 17 April the so-called cabinet of Oxfordshire County Council meets and will (among much else) receive a paper from the officers which will in eff...
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Finstock Local History Society: March 2008
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Finstock Local History Society. Spanish Liquor Day is coming - a chance to walk in the Forest from Leafield Five Ash Bottom down to the Kennel Lake or just walk down Patch Riding. Spanish Liquor is made up with some pieces of hard liquorice with two to three black gobstopper type sweets and white peppermints which were crushed, made up on Saturday night and shaken well on Sunday Morning. MEMORIES OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW'S MOTHER. Mrs Ivy Pratley, describes the making of the Spanish Water. On the Saturday ev...
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Finstock Local History Society: Shops and public houses in Finstock ... and a Murder ...
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Finstock Local History Society. Shops and public houses in Finstock . and a Murder . Finstock used to have three shops. One was in School Road and at one time was a Fish and Chip shop, run by Tommy Franklin who I believe came. From Birmingham. The second was in The Bottom and was run, with the Post Office, by Mrs. Dore and her two daughters Nellie and Meeme. There was a third shop at the Crown Public House which sold sweets, sugar and tea, but was mostly run as an off-licence. August 11, 2007 at 6:38 PM.
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Finstock Local History Society: Finstock Club Day c.1900
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Finstock Local History Society. Finstock Club Day c.1900. August 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM. Can anyone name the members of Finstock Band during 1900 please? My great Grandfather was called Harry Buckingham and is most likely in this photograph, as he was part of this band. I believe he is the second person from the left of the picture, but I cannot be certain (I have photos of him from much later in his life, and they strike a distinct resemblance). Any help would be much appreciated, thank you. My web page; v...
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Finstock Local History Society: SPANISH LIQUOR DAY
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Finstock Local History Society. Spanish Liquor Day is coming - a chance to walk in the Forest from Leafield Five Ash Bottom down to the Kennel Lake or just walk down Patch Riding. Spanish Liquor is made up with some pieces of hard liquorice with two to three black gobstopper type sweets and white peppermints which were crushed, made up on Saturday night and shaken well on Sunday Morning. MEMORIES OF MY BROTHER-IN-LAW'S MOTHER. Mrs Ivy Pratley, describes the making of the Spanish Water. On the Saturday ev...
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Finstock Local History Society: FYNSTOKE TO FINSTOCK: A Short History
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Finstock Local History Society. FYNSTOKE TO FINSTOCK: A Short History. Finstock, together with its neighbours Charlbury, Fawler and Leafield, used to lie in a clearing in. Wychwood Forest that stretched from Woodstock to Burford. During the early part of the twentieth century the principal occupations in Finstock were glove-making at the village hall site, carried out by women, while the men and boys worked as agricultural labourers on the land. Today most inhabitants of the village commute by car an...
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Finstock Local History Society: February 2007
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Finstock Local History Society. Notes for the brief talk on 16th February. On the Bowerman Boys. Jonathan and Martha Bowerman baptised eleven children at Charlbury parish church between 1766 and 1791, eight boys and three girls. Three died in infancy but the pressure of bringing up a large family was immense. At the burial of one child, David in 1786 Jonathan the father is described as a pauper indicating he and his family were receiving relief from the parish overseers for the poor. Brought from Reading...
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Finstock Local History Society: May 2007
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Finstock Local History Society. Shops and public houses in Finstock . and a Murder . Finstock used to have three shops. One was in School Road and at one time was a Fish and Chip shop, run by Tommy Franklin who I believe came. From Birmingham. The second was in The Bottom and was run, with the Post Office, by Mrs. Dore and her two daughters Nellie and Meeme. There was a third shop at the Crown Public House which sold sweets, sugar and tea, but was mostly run as an off-licence. Links to this post. 1851 ce...
