Jul 8, 2021 | Historical Miscellany
Richard Plackett, a local carrier, decided to move from horse and carrier’s cart into motorised transport based at Three Ways Adderbury. He was the father of Lucy who gave money in 1938 for a community/playing fieldThe field behind the...
Dec 8, 2020 | Historical Miscellany
The following text was the introductory talk given by Bryan Sheppard on September 27th 2009 at the unveiling of the Blue Plaque in memory of Janet Blunt. Bryan gave the manuscript to AHA after the talk. It therefore seems fitting after the untimely death of Bryan to...
Jul 24, 2020 | Historical Miscellany
Rhoda Woodward’s most ambitious contribution to the history of the village of Adderbury was her account of the Schools of Adderbury. In the first two parts of this account she wrote about the Boys’ School, the Girls’ School and the Infants’ School, using material in...
Jul 18, 2020 | Historical Miscellany
Jackson’s Oxford Journal was a weekly newspaper founded in 1753 by William Jackson, which continued in one form or another until after the First World War. For the first fifty-five years of its existence Jackson’s Oxford Journal was the only local newspaper serving...
Jul 17, 2020 | Historical Miscellany
Introduction Over the 230 years since it first opened to Oxford in 1790, the relationship between the Southern Oxford Canal and the village of Adderbury has never been either close or straightforward (see the paper. “Adderbury and the Oxford Canal over 200 years”...
Jul 10, 2020 | Historical Miscellany
Joan Frederica Mathewana Granville (known among close friends and relatives as Mathewana) was the daughter of Bernard Granville of Wellesbourne Hall, Warwickshire. She was born at Calwick Abbey Staffordshire about 1830 a direct descendant of Admiral Sir Richard...
