Browse Items (344 total)

This is an invitation to the 1963 British Dental Association ball held at the Oxford Town Hall on Tuesday 23rd July, 1963. My grandfather Eric Fletcher was a dentist on Beaumont Street for many years and he and my grandmother Shelagh used to attend…

About the picture(s)Lockdown eased enough to allow paddling with certain restrictions. This was my first paddle for several months and it was extremely restorative.

About the picture(s)(1) Family Sunday Lunch, the COVID-19 version(2) After a long day at the hospital...(3) Growing, literally, love for plants :)Message for the futureIn these times where we are rarely surprised when we have easy access to things on…

The 100 word challenge was just that - a challenge, and during lockdown seemed something to work the grey cells and hopefully achieve a beginning, middle and end! Both of these 100 word stories were written during lockdown, the first story is…

"The sky has been like a blank canvas again, while the planes have hardly been flying. It has also been so quiet, birdsong has been the dominant sound. The kite reminds me of the simple things in life and the most precious, time with family."Cathy…

"Brace yourself, Oxford - this is the Rose Revived pub beside the Thames at Newbridge, about 15 miles upstream of Port Meadow and Oxford city centre.
We have to stop concreting over the green belt around Oxford or scenes like this will only get…

I don't know if you caught a post in the ' History of Oxford' group on Facebook in mid-October where I told the story of a model of an Oxford bus, made for me as a three year old by my Dad, Bob Rogers in the early 1950s.He constructed it out of spare…

A bus trip in Bonn during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

These objects are dolls house furniture I had as a child. They are made out of a variety of materials; fabrics, wood, paper, metal, plastic. In 2019 I lent them to be part of a display at the Bodleian Shop in Broad Street, Oxford. The display was to…

Photo of building with interesting decorative statues on the river.