Blooming marvellous

10:10am Monday 17th November 2008

Mrs RH Speaks, of Western Road, Grandpont, Oxford, was a champion grower.

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Getting stuck in to the yearly loaf

10:00am Monday 17th November 2008

The gift of a loaf of bread to every child at Burford Primary School couldn’t have been better timed.

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Secretaries striking a lovely pose

10:00am Monday 17th November 2008

The publicity department at Morris Motors at Cowley didn't have to look far when it wanted attractive young women to help sell the firm's cars.

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Standing in a Wavy Line

10:00am Monday 17th November 2008

Who remembers the Wavy Line grocers?

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School pupils all at sea

10:00am Monday 17th November 2008

Oxford is about as far away from the sea that you can get in Britain.

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'Utter relief' as the guns fell silent

1:54pm Monday 10th November 2008

The infantry battalions of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry were scattered across the globe as the First World War ended. Those fighting Germany's allies had seen their last action before the end of fighting on the Western Front, as the alliance of the Central Powers fragmented

Hussars in action to last moment

1:39pm Monday 10th November 2008

The mounted troops of the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars – or Oxfordshire Yeomanry – were in the vanguard of the British Army as it advanced through Belgium, returning to the ground where British and German forces had first exchanged fire in August 1914.

Return ticket to steam days

3:09pm Monday 3rd November 2008

Didcot Railway Centre is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Oxfordshire today, but until June 1965 it was a working steam locomotive depot, the beating heart of a small railway town then in Berkshire.

Trouble flared on Bonfire Night

2:58pm Monday 3rd November 2008

The Randolph Hotel, the Super Cinema and the Taj Mahal Restaurant were traditional targets for November 5 hooliganism in Oxford.

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