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BANBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Spring 2008 £2.50 Volume 17 Number 5
ISSN 6522-0823 BANBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Registered Charity No. 269581 Website: www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/banburymuseum/banburyhistoricalsoc.cfin
President The Lord Saye and Sele
Chairman Jeremy Gibson
Cake and Cockhorse Editorial Committee Editor: Jeremy Gibson, Harts Cottage, Church Hanborough, Witney, Oxon. OX29 8AB (tel. 01993 882982) Assistant editors: Deborah Hayter (commissioning), Beryl Hudson (proofs)
Hon. Secretary: Hon. Treasurer: Simon Townsend, G.F. Griffiths, Banbury Museum, 39 Waller Drive, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Banbury OX16 2PQ Oxon. OX16 9NS; (tel. 01295 672626). (tel. 01295 263944).
Publicity: Hon. Research Adviser: Deborah Hayter, Brian Little, Walnut House, 12 Longfellow Road, Charlton, Banbury, Banbury OX17 3DR Oxon. OX16 9LB; (tel. 01295 811176). (tel. 01295 264972).
Committee Members Dennis Basten, Colin Cohen, Chris Day, Helen Forde, Deborah Hayter, Beryl Hudson, Fiona Thompson. Consultant: Martin Allitt.
Membership Secretary Mrs Margaret Little, c/o Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Oxon. OX16 2PQ.
Details of the Society's activities and publications will be found on the back cover.
© 2008 Banbury Historical Society on behalf of its contributors. Cake and Cockhorse
The magazine of the Banbury Historical Society, issued three times a year. Volume 17 Spring 2008 Number Five
Alan Crosby A Banbury Shoemaker in the 1870s 150 Alan Donaldson Banburyshire's Lost Main Line: The Great Central Railway