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CHANGE OF VENUE The Fitzharrys Manor Estate – from Medieval Knights to Atomic Spies
Church Room, Radley Church Road, RadleySpeaker: Mike Evans Mike presents the history of this part of north Abingdon from the time of Abingdon Abbey to its links with Klaus Fuchs and other atomic spies in […]
CHANGE OF VENUE What a Liberty! Memorable moments along Oxford’s ancient boundaries
Church Room, Radley Church Road, RadleySpeaker: Mark Davies Mark presents dramatic and amusing incidents from five centuries of ceremonial circuits by Oxford's mayors of the city's boundaries which were mainly defined by its waterways. Although […]
More than Three Men in a Boat: the rise and fall of pleasure boating on the Thames
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Simon Wenham Simon looks at the changes in the use of the river Thames above London over the past 150 years and why its popularity for recreational boating grew […]