Follow this pointer to view each person's reminiscences in turn 
- Tim Blackmore
Tim lived at Masons Road in Wood Farm as a child in the 1950s - John Bolt
John moved to 27 Windmill Road as a small child in 1927 and attended St Andrew’s School - Margaret E. Colburn (Mrs Colyer) (born 1923)
Peggy moved to Oxford with her parents in 1927, and to 79 Staunton Road in Headington in c.1936 - Margaret Coppock (Mrs Coppock Mayers)
Margaret (who moved to 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 - Alan C. Dent (1927–1997)
Police officer from 1948 to 1973 - Lois East (1931– 2018)
Memories of the 1950s by the Quarry postmistress at 53 Pitts Road - Martin Ferguson
Memories of the Slade Camp and Wood Farm in the 1950s - John Gardner
Memories of Highfield in the 1950s and 1960s - Pauline Gibbs (Mrs Dean)
Pauline lived in Old Road as a girl during the Second World War and remembers the prisoners of war there - David Gooch
David (who moved 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) (1923–2008)
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) (1933–2011)
Jeune grew up in Bulan Road in the 1930s /1940s - Roy Murrant
Roy was evacuated to Headington from London in 1939 - Geoffrey Nicholson
Geoffrey's parents ran the shop at 39 New High Street from 1947 to 1961 - Christopher Payne
Chris, whose grandparents lived in a cottage at 162 Old Road, remembers the nearby war camps - 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 - Dick Tolley
Dick recalls life in Windsor Street from 1927 to 1952, and Headington in the Second World War - Kathy Turner
Kathy lived as a child in the early 1950s in one of the huts in Old Road Camp - Denis Warry
Denis was related to the bike-shop owner G. H. Williams and lived in Headington from 1929 to 1948 - Charles Whitehead
Charles remembers his Whitehead and Bryan grandparents who lived in Headington
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” (107 Windmill Road, on the corner of Margaret Road, in the 1930s)
- “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:
