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- John Bolt
John (who still lives in Headington) moved to 27 Windmill Road as a small child in 1927 and attended St Andrew’s School - Margaret Coppock (Mrs Coppock Mayers)
Margaret (who now lives in Pennsylvania) grew up in New High Street in the 1920s/1930s - Edith Currill (Mrs Musselle) (1915–2000)
Edith grew up on the London Road, opposite the workhouse, in the 1920s - David Gooch
David (who now lives in Southern California) grew up in Old High Street in the 1930s/1940s - David Goodearl
David is an Australian who worked in Headington for two years in the 1950s - Judith Hammick (Mrs Friend)
Judith was a don’s daughter who grew up in Old Road in the 1920s/1930s - James Hansford
James, grandson of Headington blacksmith Fred Cleverly, recalls his family from the nineteenth century to the 1950s - Stephanie Jenkins
Stephanie recalls the Headington shops c.1980 - The Liddell family
Pictures showing the Liddells in the Hermitage in Old High Street from the 1920s to 1960s - Jill McCay
Jill is a doctor’s daughter who grew up on the London Road in the 1930s/1940s - Paul McElhinney
Memories of visits to Old Headington in the 1980s - Jeune Morris (Mrs Mitchell)
Jeune grew up in Bulan Road in the 1930s /1940s - Roy Murrant
Roy was evacuated to Headington from London in 1939 - Roger Prouse
Roger grew up in Risinghurst in the 1950s - Kathleen Stone (Mrs Eastes)
Kathleen remembers two forgotten schools in Old High Street in the 1920s - George Stuart
George recalls Manor Farmhouse in the 1960s, before Ethelred Court was built in its garden - Denis Warry
Denis was related to the bike-shop owner George Henry Williams and lived in Headington from 1929 to 1948
Please e-mail if you have any memories you would like to add
They can be anything from a paragraph to many pages
There are three long reminiscences of Headington in a book called Oxfordshire: Within Living Memory published by the Oxfordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1994, and kindly reproduced on this site with their permission:
- “The corner shop” (1930s, now Barclay Antiques at 107 Windmill Road)
- “My Grandmother’s House” (a house in Windmill Road c.1930)
This book should not be confused with Leslie and Griselda Taylor, Within Living Memory (Friends of Old Headington, 1978), which is devoted to the reminiscences of people who lived in Old Headington:
