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Alvescot People
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are from old photos. These photos are
not in any particular order, but just
entered at random
A Kalidascope of past inhabitants
of AlvescotAll these
photos are
copyrighted
In Alvescot all these persons lived
Here a whole community survived
But time has relentlessly passed on
Now all these persons have moved or
gone
Each was a character in their own right
And lived life to the full both day and
night
Most stayed in Alvecot all their life
Through thick thin and other strife
Nowadays people are on the move
Very few get into a real groove
So when future inhabitants look back
They will find, of real characters
there is a lack
So make the best of the faces here
The like of which will soon disappear
It makes me sad to think whats gone
As a new Alvescot has begun to dawn
People of Alvescot.
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Mrs Tinson with the bath she used on
bath night
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Marge and Hilda Tinson at No3 Farm
cottages in the 1930's
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Glyne Luckett, who was to become our
local coal man, he was a hansome man
and quite a one for the ladies, George
Welstone who lived at Black bourton,
went to work for him, and
Charles Yeatman was to be our local
Blacksmith.
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Walter John Oakey son of Robert
Oakey the haulage contractor
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Walter Frederick Oakey who got
killed in the Dardanelles in 1915 and
was buried at sea, it was said he gave
his last drop of water to another dying
man as he lay injured on the battle
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Wally and Floe Barnet Wally drove a
bus most of his life, and was landlord
of the Plough at one time, mrs Barnet
used to go to Witney every saturday
morning with Mrs Akers of Black Bourton
in her little Morris car, one day she
drove straight over the halt sign at
Carterton cross roads and stopped on
the other side, so Floe said to
her "Should'ent you have stopped at the
halt sign" and Mrs Akers said "Yes I
know but I thought I would get across
first" She would be in trouble if she
did thst these days.
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Sidney Smith who was the station
master at Alvescot when the line
opened.
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Sidney Eldredge, went to Alvescot
school and Married Glady's Jones, they
were post master and mistress, Sidney
also had a bakery in the back of the
post office and produced the village
bread,
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The Rouse's outside Shill house,
which was demolished when the Brize
Norton runway was extende.
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Another picture of Sidney Eldridge
who was also a church warden for 24
years from 1931 to 1955
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Mrs Screech with her children Minnie
Enda and Charles
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Mrs Craddock.
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The Reverent Benjamin Lloyd vicar of
Alvescot
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Patrick and Annie Scanlon who's
children Pat Geoerge and Jim where
evacuees to Alvescot in WW2 and then
Pat and Annie follosed them, see
elseshere for details of evacuees.
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Mrs Neate, the Rev Walter Neats wife
who was Alvescots vicar.
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The Rev Neate
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The Mitchells, he came to Alvescot
to help build the railway, he was a
carpenter, and stayed on and made a
living making sheep hurdles.
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Miss Gough was the head mistress of
Alvescot school for many many years,
and any one who knew her said she was
very strict, and used to dish out the
cane quite often, as can be seen by the
old punishment book elsewhere on this
site.
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Kathleen Eustace was a church warden
and taught in Somertown Oxford, whe
went up on the train every day, and
only missed once in 1947 when the train
could not run due to snow, even then
she tried to walk through the snow
along the line to Bampton to gt the
train there, but could not make it, she
was a church warden for many years, she
lived with her sister Dorothy Eustace
near the station after moving from the
council houses in 1939.
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John Oakey who had a farm in the
village and as can be seen delivered
the milk, with Bert Taylor who was to
become the undertaker and Sammy Bowls
[i]I think
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John Oakey in 1895, father of Baden
Oakey
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Ernest Oakey Charles Screech and
George Oakey, in 1933/4 probable at
Butlers Court farm
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George and Gwen Scanlon, George was
the sone fo Patreick Scanlon and was an
evacuee from the West End of London in
WW2.
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Eric and Edith Oakey, son or Robert
Oakey the hualage contractor
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Ernest Oakey with his dog
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The Eldridge Family
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Mr and Mrs Edmunds of Manor Farm.
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Dorothy Eustace, sister of Kathrine
Eustace she was a teacher at Black
Bourton school and then at Alvescot.
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Dora Smith, sister of Sidney
Smith.
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Mrs Collier landlady of the ed Lion
and Mrs Taylor who was head mistress of
Alvescot school, probable about 1946.
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John Oakey and Mary Oakey playing
with a tame fox
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Charles Oakey, this is probable the
only photo of him in existance, Bessie
Oakey gave me a box of bits and pieces,
and this negatice of glass was all
broken and in the bottom of the box, I
pieced to together and scanned it into
my pc and this is the result, and
Bessie told me who it was as it was her
grandfather, he was the baker lived in
the bake house, and also had some horse
and carts adn took an collected people
and goods from Alvescot station, he
died of a heart attack after going
round collecting money he was owed and
could not get paid.
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Charles Oakey, got killed in India
in the 1890's and is buried at Lucknore
India.
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Joyce Newman and Mr and Mrs Causy's
daughter, The Causys were land lord and
lady of The Plough.
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Mrs Causy.
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Carter Brooks and his wife in the
Yard where they lived, he was farm
labourer for Guy Walker of Rectory
farm
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Robert Oakey the haulage
contractor
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Bessie and Nellie Oakey at the Bake
house, daughters of John Oakey.
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The Rev Benjamin Lloyd.
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Baden Oakey on a horse by the black
smiths forge.
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Aubrey Oakey, who played in goal for
Oxford City for may years, and then to
manage Witney town and then chairman,
he was the instigator for the new
Witney town football ground which was
call "Oakey Stadium" until it was
renamed.
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Arther Sidney Smith
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Mrs Annie Drinkwater, who lived in
the cottage between the post office and
the Red Lion.
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Alice Oakey daughter of John Oakey
and lived at the bake house.
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