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« Introducing the Eynsham Record, Journal of the Eynsham History Group. Volumes 1-20 are now online; click here for details or follow any link below.
For printed copies (back numbers £1, current issue £3) please contact the Editor Brian Atkins, tel 01865 881677 or email.
NEW FOR 2008: Issues 1-20 now also available on CD, for cross-file searching and higher resolution images - please get in touch.
The Market House (Bartholomew Room)
Note especially the open arches and the village stocks.
Drawing by J.C.Buckler, 1826; © Bodleian Library.
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Eynsham Record 1 - 1984 (281kb)
The Vicarage House
Built in 1704; altered and enlarged in 1810.
Drawing by J.C. Buckler, 1824; © Bodleian Library (MS Top. Oxon.a.66 fol.253R)
Eynsham Record 2 - 1985 (465kb)
Eynsham Railway Station
Looking west (in the 1950s?) background to foreground: goods shed in Cotswold stone (ca. 1861); 19-lever signal box (ca. 1892); original timber-built station building (ca. 1861, extended 1878/9); and later corrugated iron shed. The wooden platform on the left, with its shelter, were added when the wartime passing loop was constructed in 1944.
Photo © Lens of Sutton.
Eynsham Record 3 - 1986 (499kb)
The 'Red Lion' and St. Leonard's in 1910
Note the cottage in the middle, which had disappeared by 1987.
Courtesy of Oxfordshire C. C. Central Library.
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Eynsham Record 5 - 1988 (495kb)
Station Road from the south
showing the level crossing and the station master's house (left). Photograph no later than July 1912, the postmarked date on this postcard.
Courtesy of Jean Buttrick.
Eynsham Record 6 - 1989 (604kb)
Acre End Street
looking west, c.1904. Left side: Swan Hotel, Railway Inn, Murray House Right side: Howe's store and post office, nos. 52, 54, 56 and Beauchamp's shop.
Print kindly loaned by William Bainbridge
Eynsham Record 10 - 1993 (558kb)
The Square
The occasion was probably a celebration of Edward VII's coronation, in August 1902.
Photo kindly loaned by Sue Chapman.
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Eynsham Record 13 - 1996 (406kb)
The Holt, Mill Street
in the course of construction c.1870. The builder was Wilkinson of Oxford. The posed picture is full of interesting detail. Note, for example, the hod carrier facing outwards on his ladder; the little girl in the window opening nearby; the woman in the apron (top right); and the 'show-off above the pulley at the top (looking like a unicyclist!)
Eynsham Record 16 - 1999 (670kb)
Looking east along Bitterell
View towards Wytham Hill, in the mid- 1970s, before development. Note the old barns to the right, later converted to a residential property.
Photograph courtesy of Martin Harris
Eynsham Record 18 - 2001 (536kb)
Eynsham Record
Editor Brian Atkins
Email: brian@fbatkins.free-online.co.uk
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