Issue No 517 September 2021 Mosaic open weekend
Thatched roof on Mosaic House 1898
The villa volunteers are delighted to those living at the cottage beside the villa in announce that the only public opening this Victorian times and that throughout the 19th year of the 4th century mosaic house will take century the roof of the mosaic house was place on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 made of thatch. In the years leading up to September between 11am and 5pm. There WW2, the bath suite and other foundations will be talks about Roman coins and a chance that are on display today were covered over to get up close to the mosaic. There will also with a shed erected on top of them. And to be the chance to join the English Heritage visit the mosaic house would have cost 3d! team of conservators cleaning the mosaics. Please email [email protected] or post Please email CLEAN to [email protected] your recollections on Twitter: @villa_north. to register your interest. Or come along on the 11th or 12th and tell one In a quest to piece together the 200-year of the volunteers of your memories. history of the site as a visitor attraction, the For more details about opening times and volunteers would be very keen to hear access to the site (which can be arduous for readers’ memories of visiting the site in those with mobility issues), please visit: earlier times. The very first account of the www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/ villa was published by Henry Hakewell after north-leigh-roman-villa/ his 1813-1816 excavations of the site. We have discovered that Blenheim Estate Matthew Lee gamekeepers and their families were among [email protected]
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2 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Dates for your diary September 1 Parish Council meeting St James’ Centre 7pm 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Folk dancing Village Hall 8-9.30pm 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Quiz night SSSC 8pm 4 Live music: Henderson & Benfield SSSC 9pm 5 Charity Afternoon Tea Combe Reading Room 2.30-5pm 6, 9, 13, 16 Taekwondo Village Hall 5.30-6.30pm 6, 13, 20, 27 Monday Coffee St James’ Centre 8.45-11.30am 7, 14, 21, 28 Zumba Village Hall 7-8pm 7, 14, 21, 28 Zumba Strong Village Hall 8.15-9.15pm 7, 21 Carers’ Café St James’ Centre 10am-12noon 8 Reading Challenge presentations Play Area 3.30-4pm 8, 15, 22, 29 Gatehouse Pilates Village Hall 9.30-10.30pm 9 Stonesfield Gardening Club Visit Bridewell Gardens 5pm 9, 16, 23, 30 Book Break Stonesfield Library 12.30-2pm 11,12 North Leigh Roman Villa opening Mosaic House 11am-5pm 12 Open Day Bridewell Garden 11am-4pm 18 Scouts’ Duck Race Evenlode Bridge 3pm 19 Steaming Sunday Combe Mill 10am-5pm 20, 23, 27, 30 Taekwondo Village Hall 5.30-6.30pm 24 MacMillan Coffee Morning Village Hall 9am-2pm October 2 White Horse Pub: public meeting Village Hall 5pm
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 3 Notices & news
Tania Tipping (nee Pinney) children, and she was also imaginative and Vernon, Madeleine, Stuart, Helen and adventurous. Her annual Nativity plays family would like to say a huge thank you were a joy and exquisitely turned out. to everyone who sent messages, sympathy Penny Hodgson, her classroom assistant cards and many phone calls following the for a time, remembers a colourful death of our daughter, wife, mum and classroom with origami birds suspended sister. from the ceiling. She used to take her hen, Goldie, in to the class; and who remembers Tania spent her younger days in the classroom incubator with chicks Stonesfield and made many friends, both miraculously hatching from their shells in Stonesfield and the surrounding villages. before your very eyes? Although Tania left to get married and start her family, she often came back to Wendy Gould sums up how we look back enjoy the walks and loved taking her two on this remarkable lady: ‘Celia Hutton was boys down to the river. Gone too soon. She an almost perfect infant teacher, adored by will be sorely missed. her young charges who started school with tearful, nervous anticipation and were The Pinney family guided, supported and educated by a gentle but firm hand. She was an inspiration.’ Celia Hutton It’s true that this was over forty years ago How many people in Stonesfield, now in but if any pupils and parents have their forties and fifties, remember starting memories they would like to share, The their school days in Mrs Hutton’s class? Slate would like to hear from you. It would Celia Hutton, Reception Class teacher and be a fitting memorial for an exceptional Deputy Head, has died aged 95. She taught teacher. here for at least twenty years and saw three head teachers come and go. Val Phillips Those of us who sent our children there, or Mary Evins who assisted in her classroom, had immense respect for her. All the many Ron Evins and all the family would like to anecdotes I have heard from parents thank everyone who attended Mary’s experiencing the trauma of taking their funeral on Monday 16 August and for their child to their very first day at school point generous donations. £272 was raised for to one thing: for Mrs Hutton, the child’s Dementia UK. Thank you and stay safe. interests were always paramount. She was ‘old school’ in the best sense: intimidating to parents maybe but not to
4 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate previously received the Légion d’Honneur, Goodbye from Jean and Frank France’s highest award of merit. Hall Jean and Frank Hall are saying goodbye to They are both very sorry to leave the village Stonesfield. In case any friends in the but, as Dad said to Mum, ‘It will be like village had not heard, Mum and Dad have going on holiday!’ moved to Tall Trees Care Home in Rosie White (07778 260925) Shipton- under-Wychwood; Mum in June and Dad at the beginning of August. They Colostomy UK’s charity have been in the village (this time around!) challenge: Step Up for Stomas since 1969 and have always played an active part in the village. Dad, amongst In last month’s Slate I submitted a piece other roles, collected for the Poppy Appeal asking for donations for a charity challenge and was on the Village Hall Committee for in which Colostomy UK had requested my many years; Mum was in the WI and participation. Sadly, at the time of writing, became President, helped at Darby & Joan this has not produced any response. and, together with Dad, ran the Old Time & Colostomy UK is a national charity that Modern Sequence Dance Club. Dad is a offers support and advice to people with great story teller, often chatting whilst stomas and to their families, carers and helping John Clifford, Richard Bishop and friends. Colostomy UK also campaigns and George Dawe as part of ‘The Friday Club’ acts as advocates for ostomates (people which kept the churchyard tidy for many with a stoma) on many issues they face years. going about their daily lives. Remember, the possible need for a stoma can happen Dad first came to Stonesfield from at any age, from the very young to the Newbury in 1933 when he was ten years elderly. We want hidden conditions to be old and his mother had died. He and his understood and accepted by all. The sisters were looked after by other family charity’s vision is of communities in which members living here, with Dad only leaving everyone is empowered to reach their the village when he was called up to the 6th potential. Airborne Ox & Bucks in 1941. He moved away to Bladon in 1952 when he married I’m fundraising for Colostomy UK, as an Mum and helped to run the Lamb Inn with ostomate myself of 17 years’ experience, her family. After moving to a tied church because this cause is very close to my heart cottage there, they looked after the church after receiving their help and advice over in their ‘spare time’ including during the the years. The pandemic has seriously funeral of Winston Churchill when they affected the charity’s funds so any met many famous people who visited the donation, small or large, will really make a grave. difference! There are over 160,000 people with a stoma in the UK so the challenge set Dad has just been photographed and for participants is to take 160,000 steps interviewed for a year-long exhibition on over the thirty days of September. I will be his regiment which is being put together participating in that challenge and I am for the Duxford Airborne Museum, having asking for your support in donating whatever you can to encourage me.
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 5 Donations can be made at my Just Giving ever event for climate and nature in the UK web page: www.justgiving.com/ and everyone’s invited to participate. fundraising/Anthony-Taylor25. If you are Thousands of events will celebrate how eligible, please don’t forget Gift Aid. communities are taking action to tackle On 30 September I will be 78 years young climate change and protect green spaces, so what a wonderful birthday celebration it and encourage others to get involved too. would be if I could raise lots of money! These will range from art installations to Thank you. concerts, community stalls and climate cafes and everything in between, and will Tony Taylor (07702 152781) be hosted by teachers, bus drivers, builders, sports clubs, artists, community Blenheim bursaries groups, places of worship, and anyone who Blenheim Estate runs a £50,000 charity cares about climate change. and community bursary fund from which Great Big Green Week community hubs some twenty local charities, organisations will celebrate local activity, raise the profile and good causes are set to benefit. The of climate change and show why it is bursary is available to all charities and relevant to your community and local organisations based within a 20-mile decision-makers. National organisations, radius of Blenheim. Among groups institutions, businesses and media outlets receiving funds, which amount from £200 will join in, getting more people involved to £5,000, are Stonesfield Outdoor Gym, up and down the country and encouraging the Plunkett Foundation, Stonesfield the Government to increase its efforts in Scouts, Sustainable Woodstock, respect of climate change. Stonesfield School and North Leigh Roman Villa. More information and how to get involved can be found at Applications for next year’s bursaries will www.greatbiggreenweek.com open in November and close at the end of January 2022 with successful applicants being notified in March and receiving Summer Reading Challenge funds in April. More information and an At the time of writing, our Library is still application form are available from only operating on a ‘click and collect’ Samantha Vaughan (07469 129743 service and is open for just six hours per [email protected]) or by week (Mondays 2-4pm, Wednesday and visiting the website: www.blenheim.org/ Thursday 10am-12noon. community/charity-community-bursary/ We hope that this situation will have changed by the time you are reading this. Great Big Green Week However, in these conditions it has been Great Big Green Week is a national week of difficult for families to access the Library in events celebrating action on climate their usual numbers and as a result we change. This will take place from 18-26 have only eleven children signed up for the September and communities across the Summer Reading Challenge. country will join together in the biggest
6 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Accordingly, our planned medal ceremony supportive environment. Its features has been adjusted but we will still be include a large pond in the cottage garden, congratulating those who have completed an avenue of roses and apple trees, a knot the Wild World Heroes Quest by reading garden, raised vegetable beds, a soft fruit six library books. There will be a cage and a herb wheel. presentation of medals and certificates in We look forward to sharing our beautiful the play area outside the Library and this gardens with you at our last Open Day of will take place on 8 September from the year on Sunday 12 September from 3.30-4pm. By then we hope there will be 11am-4pm. There will be a pop-up café in more of you! the gardens for tea and cake and the Val Phillips on behalf of the Friends of opportunity to buy plants, fruit juices, Stonesfield Library chutneys and our organic sparkling wine. Make a day of it, bring a picnic blanket and Afternoon Tea at Combe relax in the vineyard with friends and We are delighted to be back in the garden family. Dogs on leads are very welcome. No of the Combe Reading Room this year to booking is required and there is a hold our fundraising afternoon tea event. It suggested donation of £5 per person. will be on Sunday 5 September, 2.30-5pm, Bridewell Gardens and all proceeds will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. We will be serving cream The Walled Garden, Wilcote, OX7 3DT teas, homemade cakes and hot drinks. bridewellgardens.co.uk Handmade gifts and cards will be on sale and we will be holding a raffle. MacMillan Coffee Morning Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition On Friday 24 September we are hosting a which affects mucus in the sufferer’s body MacMillan fundraiser in the Village Hall and causes damage to internal organs, from 9am-2pm. We will be serving particularly the lungs and digestive system. breakfast, mid-morning drinks, cakes and The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is dedicated to lunch. There will also be cakes for sale finding a cure for this life-limiting alongside a bottle tombola. condition. We are looking for donations of cakes and If you are not able to be there on the 5th but bottles for the tombola, along with helpers would like to support us, please contact me on the day. Everyone is welcome and if you on 07958 595668 to purchase raffle tickets are able to help, even if only for a short at a cost of £5 per book of five tickets. time, then please contact me on the email address below. Libby Hanks Please check Facebook for more details Bridewell Open Day nearer the time. We look forward to seeing you all and appreciate in advance your Bridewell is a flourishing and imaginative support for this incredible charity. walled garden and vineyard where people recovering from enduring mental illness Ali Appleton can rebuild their lives in a safe and [email protected]
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 7 anything that will bring joy and put a smile The White Horse: public back on people’s faces. meeting The Stonesfield Community Pub We would also like to utilise the Hall to Committee are holding a public meeting at open up a café to the public so would like the Village Hall on Saturday 2 October at to offer the first Saturday of every month to 5pm to update the community on their any local community groups that would work to safeguard the future of the White like to raise some money for their causes. Horse pub. All are welcome. All you would need to do is let us know when! Mark Saville Don’t forget that all clubs start back in [email protected] September too so, if you are in need of a new activity, do contact us and we will put Village Hall news you in touch with the relevant groups. The summer is always a peaceful time in Hope to see you all soon. the village with lots of people away so events are very few and far between. Jacqueline Carthew, (898919) However, that doesn’t mean that we are Secretary & Booking Clerk resting on our laurels – for us it is a time of stonesfi[email protected] ideas and planning to see what exciting things we can do for our community in the coming months! Craft Fair: We need your help! Do you do a craft that you would like to share with Help Please! others? Do you make things that other Do you have a house people might like to buy? If you are an artist, creator, hobbyist or craftsperson we for us to rent? would love to hear from you. We want to live in Stonesfield or Careers Fair: Do you love your work? Have Charlbury and need a house to you found a way to do something that you rent nearby, while we're looking for enjoy and make it your career? Would you our permanent home. like the opportunity to tell others what you We need: do and how you got into your line of work? - 2/3 bedrooms If so, we would like to hear from you and - light spacious feel - WiFi give you the opportunity to inspire others. - off-road parking Christmas Fair: We are keen to create the We are a retired couple - no pets - magic of the season again with another no parties! Christmas Market event so we would love to hear from gift-sellers, craft stalls, Niki Holland: 07713 654209 children’s toy and book sellers, [email protected] refreshment vendors and Christmas Roger Bacon: 07730 202511 entertainments and activities; in fact, [email protected]
8 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Politics & local affairs
Stonesfield Parish Council The last meeting of the Parish Council was held on 7 July and not 13 July as previously advised. Date of next meeting: There was no Parish Council meeting scheduled for August. The September meeting takes place on 1 September at 7pm at the St Before & after: Peaks Lane James’ Centre. Since then, SAFER has continued to follow Overhanging hedges: Would residents up OCC Highways to get all the work of the village kindly cut back any completed. This included additional overhanging hedges from their gardens. surveys, photographs and site meetings, This will keep the pavements and/or plus lots of emails. OCC Highways did highway tidy and clear for everyone. Thank carry out a small proportion of this work in you. early 2020 but lack of budget and Covid brought progress to a grinding halt. Karen East, Parish Clerk clerk@stonesfieldpc.uk A site meeting with OCC Highways in May 2021 finally gained their commitment to a list of outstanding items which were then OCC completes road traffic completed in mid-August. signage upgrades One of the first projects taken on by SAFER in March 2019 was the cleaning and documenting of all village road traffic and direction signs. As a result of this, in April 2019, SAFER submitted a report to OCC Highways Department listing several signs needing repair, replacement or upgrading. Before & after: Woodstock Road
A total of 19 signs have been repaired, reset, replaced or introduced to improve road safety in the village. New signs give clear messages to drivers to expect pedestrians on some roads, that The Before & after: Greenfields Ridings is unsuitable for HGVs, and
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 9 warnings of oncoming vehicles in the business churn, residents’ parking permits, middle of narrow sections of road such as the rationalisation of parking times, and Laughton Hill. the establishment of a single authority to be responsible for these issues. The aim is SAFER thanked OCC Highways for their to resolve the current problems of limited support in this work. enforcement and gridlock which have Cllr Michael J Heduan MBE, arisen due to the involvement of more than SAFER (Stonesfield Parish Council Working one authority. Group) m.heduan@stonesfieldpc.uk I have been dealing with the home-to- www.stonesfield.online/safer/ schools policy which affects the ability of children to get to school and have sat on an appeals panel which has been able to effect Oxfordshire County Council a positive result. The policy needs to be (OCC) improved as it is currently unfair, From our County Councillor particularly for children living rural areas The first 100 days…. such as ours. Across the Woodstock division, I was pleased to hear about the Village representing nearly 9,000 people in twelve Transport Network and improving cycle parishes and towns, I have received a warm routes between villages and I am now welcome and for me it has been a learning working with officers to supplement and curve. What has stood out for me is how support this initiative so that walkers and proud people feel about the places in which improvements to bus services can be linked they live and how important it is to where appropriate. People’s safety has to preserve village life and celebrate it. I be prioritised and our highways need spoke to over 100 residents, councillors improvements to facilitate this. and key stake owners including the estate Thank you for all your support to date. landowners who have influenced so much. Please email me if you need advice or I was impressed with the local expertise: support – that is what I am here for! retired engineers, teachers and environmentalists whose knowledge has Cllr Andy Graham helped me to start putting plans into action [email protected] to address issues which have been overlooked in the past. News from West Oxfordshire We have come up with solutions to address Electoral registration: WODC reminds flooding in Tackley and Sandford St residents to ensure that their electoral Martin, managed to get Thames Water to registration details are up to date. The realign the sewage pipes to prevent annual canvass is currently taking place leakage, and supported the initiatives in and residents can expect to receive a letter Stonesfield, the Bartons, Combe and in this regard within the next few months. Woodstock. Residents who need to register may do so Parking is being addressed in Woodstock at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote or wait for with a plan being put together to address the information to arrive in the post.
10 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Witney Shopmobility: The Witney The Council for the Protection of Rural Shopmobility service has been relaunched England have commented as follows: The under new management with extended Oxfordshire Plan will set the development opening hours and plans to extend its framework for the county for the next offering. Operation of the free service, generation. It will affect all Oxfordshire which provides disability scooters and residents, either directly (through wheelchairs for shoppers, has now been development) or indirectly (through the taken on by the Witney Inclusive Care & impact on services, infrastructure, our Education Centre (ICE), having been countryside and rural character.) CPRE closed since March last year due to the Oxfordshire is fighting to make sure that pandemic. For more information and to the growth options are deliverable without book a scooter or wheelchair, please undue damage to our countryside and telephone 01993 846240. some otherwise good policy proposals for getting to net zero and restoring nature. Oxfordshire Plan 2050 That means guiding development to the right places and building high-quality The Oxfordshire Plan 2050 is a long-term compact housing to make the best use of plan that will set a framework for future scarce land. Responding to the planning decisions and is being formulated consultation is our best chance of by Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire influencing both the outcomes of this Plan County Council, and the District Councils and the OxCam Arc proposals. More of Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of information is available on the CPRE White Horse and West Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire website: www.cpreoxon.org.uk
Neighbourhood Watch A newly announced ‘Beating Crime Plan’ includes ensuring that every Residents’ views are sought on the neighbourhood in England and Wales has following policies which have been a named and contactable police officer suggested as a means to help Oxfordshire: dedicated to that neighbourhood. addressing climate change; improving The police officer will know their area, the environmental quality; creating strong and people and local communities who live healthy communities; planning for there and is best placed to ensure that sustainable travel and connectivity; and persistent crime and anti-social behaviour creating jobs and providing homes. The is tackled. consultation is open until Friday 8 October at www.oxfordshireopenthought.org. This is a positive step towards local Printed copies are available from WODC neighbourhood policing which many feel offices, Witney Town Council or has been lost. Neighbourhood Watch will Oxfordshire County Council at County liaise with its members regarding the Hall; please confirm with the venue before progress of this initiative. visiting.
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Education,Autumn/Harvest lunch. Hope culture to see you Carol & Anderson more entitled ‘The Stonesfield next month. Embroidery’. We meet in the Turner Hall, Church Road, North Leigh, OX29 6TX at Avis 7.30pm. Visitors £4, members are free. For further details, please get in touch. CombeNorth Leigh Mill History Society The Charlbury Morris Dancers are visiting Diana Power (01993 882301) On ‘Steaming3 September, Sunday’ there 19 will September be a talk the by in the afternoon. The Mill machinery will Mill will be holding a Crafts and Skills Day be fully in steam and volunteers will be on from 10am to 5pm. hand as usual. The tea room will be open all day for light refreshments alongside our We would be delighted if you could join us stunning riverside setting. Our site is dog- to meet a whole range of exhibitors: friendly. Please see the website for times/ the Oxford Guild of Weavers, Spinners and prices: www.combemill.co.uk or telephone Dyers, Buttercross Quilters, jewellery 01993 358694. makers, crochet, quilting, needle-felting, card-making, Crafting Club, crepe paper Our Bee Day was an amazing success - flower- making, art demonstrations, the thanks to all those who joined us. We will ‘have a go’ treadle sewing machine, vintage run it again if you missed it …. sewing machines and dolls and doll’s Tony Simmons houses.
12 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 14 North Leigh History Society North Leigh Roman Villa North Leigh History Society is back in The 4th century mosaic house will be open business! After over a year of waiting, we on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September are starting our new season of talks on between 11am and 5pm. Tuesday 7 September at 7.30pm. As there is clearly some level of virus around, we are Victorian visit to the villa moving to North Leigh Memorial Hall (OX29 6SA) as this will allow easier social distancing and greater spacing between chairs. At our first meeting, Professor Laurence Brockliss will be giving a talk about the life and death of Horatio Nelson. A year’s membership of the Society is £18 or you can come as a visitor to any one of our talks for £4. Further details are available from Diana Power (882301) or Robert Kyte at [email protected].
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 13 Romano-British
A dozen villas straddle Akeman Street – Stonesfield, Ditchley Dell, Kingswood Brake; each nooked in a fold of the landscape close to the water, set back from the road – Callow Hill, Fawler, Wilcote, Asthall; all obliterated, ghosting the landscape they occupied – Busksleap Copse, Ramsden, Shakenoak.
But at North Leigh I am the ghost passing through walls seeing beneath their floors
fetching them back from the clenched fist of the earth prising open its stony fingers, greedy for scraps
tracing hypocausts and drains sweeping dirt from their pixelated floors, slotting tesserae back into place, picking at artefacts reassembling amphorae speculating in the dust
and hearing the same mewl of buzzards within the same shoulder of land that cradles the river with the trees drawing up the old, old stories from the soil singing them out to an ear-stopped world
Dr. Romola Parish
14 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate loaded with psychoactive chemicals linked Nature notes: in history to magic and folklore, the ‘flying The nightshade family ointment’ of witchcraft and the visionary ‘What do you think this might be?’ My new elixir of monks and shaman. To be avoided neighbour on the allotments shows me by inquisitive three-year-old grandchildren what looks like a green tomato. As he was at all costs. walking from a potato patch, I am fairly certain it is a fruit from a potato flower and John Sampson somewhat poisonous. All native and most cultivated members of the nightshade Blenheim’s environmental family are poisonous to some degree. The initiatives fruit of the tomato and tubers of the potato Blenheim Estate has announced its ‘Land are edible – otherwise beware! This is the Strategy’ which aims to connect time of year for the nightshade family to communities with a network of routes to appear from the dark depths of hedgerows promote ‘green’ travel and the health and and woodland edges. They flourish in wellbeing of local communities. disturbed chalky and limestone soils. ‘What is this, Grandad?’ A sharp-eyed three-year-old grandchild points to a small flower with reflex purple petals and a stunning yellow cone. In time the flowers produce green berries that turn to a bright In November work will begin on the scarlet and are in clusters on a scrambling creation of a new 150-hectare woodland plant. This is the ‘bittersweet’ or ‘woody’ which will eventually see over 270,000 nightshade. It is not uncommon in our trees being planted and the creation of a Stonesfield hedgerows; the name gives a series of public footpaths and cycleways. As clue that there is a bitter taste making the well as creating a major new habitat for berries almost inedible and quickly spat wildlife, the woodlands will sequester out. This avoids most side-effects which 25,000 tonnes of carbon as part of a 25- are rarely serious. year programme. The long-term aim is to Deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna) is a become the UK’s first estate to different matter and deadly poisonous. demonstrate carbon-positive land Named by Linnaeus in 1753, Atropa is one management. of the Three Fates and cuts the thread of Gemma Else life: Belladonna, the beautiful woman with [email protected] dilated pupils caused by a minuscule eyedrop of deadly nightshade. This bushy perennial plant looks like a feral potato plant growing from the ground each year. The flowers are purplish-brown bells with a berry inside; developing from green to a most enticing shiny black, the single berries are highly toxic. The berries are
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 15 green, are known as the 'Bread and Beef' Witney almshouses Houses. The history of almshouses stretches back to medieval times when religious orders cared Almshouses on Church Green for the poor. By the middle of the sixteenth century, there were about 800 medieval hospitals spread across the country but the dissolution of the monasteries meant that many were either sold off to landowners or left to ruin. It was during the late sixteenth century that the medieval craft guilds founded many hospitals to provide care for the “elderly decayed” members in their In 1724, the clothier John Holloway left declining years. During the Victorian era money to build an almshouse for six housing became a huge social problem as widows to be chosen by his trustees, five to people migrated to towns looking for work. come from Witney and one from Scandalous conditions of the workhouses Curbridge, with preference given to inspired wealthy philanthropists to endow widows of clothiers or blanket- almshouses, generally for their local area makers. The houses, to include an upper and in groups of 6-12 dwellings. It is and lower room and a garden for each estimated that a third of current occupant, were built at Church Green almshouses were founded during this immediately east of the church. He also left period. There were three sets of an endowment producing an allowance for almshouses in Witney. each occupant. In early twentieth century the widows were still receiving an The earliest are on Church Green near the allowance; applicants had to be at least 50 Henry Box School. By 1613 the borough years old, with preference still given to owned an almshouse and garden on this blanket-workers. In 1868 these houses site north of the rectory house, comprising were rebuilt to designs by William three separate tenements in which 'the Wilkinson. poor of the borough are placed'. By the 1760s it had been divided into four In 1827 William Townsend, a wealthy dwellings occupied by five tenants, though London haberdasher from a long- whether they were still paupers is not clear. established Witney family who kept the After 1795, when the almshouse was rebuilt Staple Hall Inn during the seventeenth as a row of six cottages, each was usually Townsend almshouses let to non-paupers at commercial rents and the income used for charitable purposes. They were further modernised in 1814 after which they ceased to be almshouses and were let for rent. The money from the rents was used to buy food, mainly bread and beef, for the poor and so the cottages, which still stand today on the edge of the
16 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate century, built a row of almshouses. They are situated on the north side of Newland, just to the east of the junction with Broad Hill and Bridge Street. They were intended for ‘six aged, unmarried women’ and consisted of a single upstairs room with a living room and scullery downstairs and outdoor privies. By the early twentieth century the trustees usually had eight or nine applications in hand, deciding each case on its merits with preference given to Witney women.
Witney Blanket Museum
These and other historic sites can be found while walking the Wool & Blanket Trail. Starting from the Market Place in the centre of Witney, the trail is a circular walk some 2¾ miles. A walking map and more details can be found at www.witneyblanketstory.org.uk/
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 17 Clubs, societies & sport
Stonesfield Gardening Club Churchfields Allotments As is normal for us in the Gardening Club, We currently have allotments available. we had no meeting in August as we work in Please contact John Sampson if interested. our own gardens and allotments and try to Unfortunately, outdoor tomatoes are all keep up with the harvest. We do however suffering from blight this year. It is have a meeting planned this month as we beginning to creep into greenhouses and will be visiting Bridewell Organic Garden can also affect potatoes. It is essential to in Wilcote for a tour and a talk on either burn or dispose of blight material Thursday 9 September. We will make our into waste bins in the hope of preventing own way there and meet at 5pm. I’m sure problems next year. On a positive note, we are all looking forward to getting runner beans are doing well! together again. John Sampson Planning further ahead, the Committee would like to hold an Open Gardens event [email protected] next year. We do this in alternate years but did not hold it in 2021 for obvious reasons. It would be lovely if some new gardens would like the chance to shine as well as our ‘old faithfuls’. Do please contact me if you think you would be interested in letting people come into your garden for a couple of hours on a Sunday in June. It’s a fun event and a good way of meeting new people, as well as a real prompt for finishing that garden project you had in mind!
Diane Bates, Secretary [email protected] www.stonesfieldgardening.info
Runner bean: Relay
18 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Church news
Stonesfield Methodist Church and the other which sees soul as: Services for September a person's deeply felt moral and emotional 5 Sept 11am Mr Richard Bowler nature: the ability of a person to feel 12 Sept 11am The Revd Jason Cooke kindness and sympathy for others, to appreciate beauty and art. 19 Sept 11am Mrs Ann Bywater 26 Sept 10.30am at Charlbury Methodist The Catechism of the Catholic Church Church states that the term soul “refers to the Mrs Margaret innermost aspect of [persons], that which Broadberry is of greatest value in [them], that by which [they are] most especially in God's The World Day of Prayer image: 'soul' signifies the spiritual The World Day of Prayer Service, which is principle in [humanity]” In other words, normally held each year in March, will now your soul is that eternal element which is take place at the Methodist Church on an indissoluble part of God, transcending Friday 1 October at 2pm. all material and worldly constraints. This year the service has been prepared by 'Do not be afraid of those who kill the body Christian women of Vanuatu and is titled but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather ‘Build on a Strong Foundation’. The World who can destroy both body and soul in Day of Prayer is an international, inter- hell’ (Matthew 10:28) church organisation and all are warmly invited to the Service here. ‘May your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Readers are needed; please get in touch if Lord Jesus’ (I Thessalonians 5:23). you can help or otherwise just come along and join the Service on the day. ‘For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his Kathleen Albért (891733) soul?’ (Mark 8:36)
Roman Catholic Worship Take care of your soul: treat it with respect, feed it with generous actions, kindly Your soul thoughtful behaviour and love of God as it ‘Soulful’, ‘soulless’, ‘soul food’, ‘soul mate’: will be with you always. what is your soul? There are generally two definitions: one which focuses on: 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth the spiritual part of a person that is of God’ (Matthew 4:4) that’s real soul food. believed to give life to the body and in many religions is believed to live forever.
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 19 Holy Mass Church of England Worship at Sunday Mass at 9.15am. There is no need St James the Great, to book but please wear a mask if you can. Stonesfield Weekday Mass times (Benefice of Stonesfield with Monday, Tuesday 9.30am Combe Longa) www.stonesfieldparishchurch.org Wednesday 7pm followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Rector: Rev Ralph Williamson, [email protected], 01993 891872 Thursday 9.30am Churchwardens: Lindsey Sellar and Friday 9.30am followed by Rachel Severn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament [email protected] Prayers of spiritual communion For any enquiries or help, including O my divine Jesus, how great is my desire pastoral support, please do contact us. to receive your sacred body! Oh, come From the Rector: New beginnings now into my soul, at least, by a spiritual for everyone communion! O Jesus, my divine Saviour, save me. O my God, hiding myself with a The new school year is beginning, and we humble confidence in your dear wounds, I can probably all remember the excitement give up my soul into your divine hands. (or fear) of the return to the classroom - to Oh, receive it into the bosom of your a new room, a new teacher, some new mercy. Amen. classmates, or to a new school. As a parent too, I will never forget the feeling of Confession by arrangement with Fr. Clive anxiety and excitement I felt for our oldest Dytor who may be contacted on child on the day she began at secondary [email protected] school in Oxford. This year, at the end of or 01608 642703 term in July, I spoke to our Year 6 children For Parish updates, any further here about the move to their next school, information and further support, please and I was very aware of how that transition www.stteresaschurch-charlbury.com/ offers children the chance to reinvent or contact Fr. Clive Dytor at: themselves - to make changes to the way chair.stteresaschurchcharlbury@ they act, work and interact with others. I gmail.com remember the beginning of secondary school as a turning point when I and all my Roman Catholic Community in Stonesfield friends had to decide what we would be like in our new school. We could try to be more sporty, more popular, less annoying, more studious… mostly by deciding how to wear our school uniform, who to hang around with, and how hard to work. It was a time of possibility, full of the potential for change. We hope and pray that all the children from the village moving into
20 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate Year 7 this month will settle well into their The parish church, though grounded in new schools, and will be happy with the tradition, must also reinvent and new versions of themselves as they try rediscover itself, and choose how it is to be them out and explore the people they want from now on. to become. As individuals, life is full of choices, As life goes on, we experience many opportunities and decisions. How will we endings, and new beginnings. The end of a live? What will we be like to our job or a relationship, a course or a tenancy, neighbours, friends, children, parents? or a fresh start in a friendship, home or How will we use our free time and our community role, may prompt us to reflect income? How will we look after ourselves and to make changes. The start of the better, and make a commitment to the calendar year in January is particularly a things about which we care? How will we time of possibilities, with fitness and the manage our responsibilities, and our avoidance of alcohol on the list of challenges? We may wish to put aside any resolutions for many people, along with a consideration of change until our next deeper reflection about the way we hope birthday or New Year, and put off thinking that life will go for us in the year ahead. about the kind of life we are living until Our birthdays and other anniversaries also then, if we do it at all. The Bible, on the mark not just the passing of time, but the other hand, urges us to look closely at our chance to learn from what is past, and to lives now, and to see today, the present live well in the future. moment, as the time to begin afresh. In the prophet Isaiah, God declares, “See, I am In Judaism there are four new year doing a new thing!” and throughout its celebrations (a bit like our calendar, history the people are urged to listen to school, and tax years), but Rosh Hashanah, God and choose what is right, today: to this year on 6 September, is the one which “Choose life!” is best known, and which marks the start of the new Jewish calendar year. The What are the choices we should make Christian Church does not have its own today? Is it time to heal a broken new year celebration, but our liturgical relationship, to begin a new project, to cycle begins with the season of Advent at arrange for more help in our homes, or to the end of November, when traditional face something we have long denied? Is it readings and prayers turn us back to time to come back to church, or to come to consideration of time and eternity. This church for the first time? Is it time to get prepares us for the celebration, the married, to get a child baptised, to say Incarnation of Christ at Christmas, God sorry, to take up some physical activity, or with us - in our beginning, our past, our to join something which will benefit others present and our future. This year in and build up our village community? May particular the church here will be thinking this be a month of new beginnings for all of about the sort of community we wish to be us, not just for the new children in Year 7, as we return from the extraordinary and may this month be a time when we can difficulties and challenges of Covid. We “Choose life!” regret what has been lost, but we recognise Rev Ralph Williamson, Rector that there are new opportunities ahead.
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 21 September Services Sunday 5 September (Trinity 14) 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion (BCP/said) 9.30am Combe All Age Worship 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship Sunday 12 September (Trinity 15) 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion (BCP/said) 9.30am Combe Parish Communion 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion Sunday 19 September (Trinity 16) 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion (BCP/said) 9.30am Combe Parish Communion 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion Sunday 26 September (Trinity 17) 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion (BCP/said) 9.30am Combe Parish Communion 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion
Wednesdays 9.30am Stonesfield Holy Communion (every week) 11am Combe Morning Prayer (1,15, and 29 Sept) Thursdays (weekly from 2 September) 7.30-9pm Housegroup All welcome – for details please contact Linda Soderberg at [email protected]
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Dog-walking service Tracey KeelingPAINT TECH Dog-walking service PAINT TECH Do you work long hours and feel that your Mobile automotive re-finishing Do you work long hours and feel that your PersonalMobile automotive Trainer re-finishing dog is not getting the attention and exercise dog is not getting the attention and exercise Painted bumpers, alloy wheels, that it needs? I run a dog-walking service The OlderPainted Adult bumpers, Training alloy Specialist wheels, that it needs?mike I run a dog-walking service paintless dent removal, screen repairs, for Stonesfield and surrounding areas. I paintless dent removal, screen repairs, for Stonesfield and surrounding areas. I interior trim and seat repairs have chamberspublic liability insurance for peace of Any ageinterior is the trim rig andht age seat trepairso exercise. have public liability insurance for peace of Full body shop facilities mind. Please feel free to call for a quote. (FaceFull bodyto face shop or facilities on-line ) mind.painting Please feel &free decorating to call for a quote. Katrina 01993 891131 / 07824357690 David Lee 07831 193999 7am–6pm Katrinainterior 01993 891131 & exterior / 07824357690 07977David 228756 Lee 07831 193999 7am–6pm [email protected] Established 1991 [email protected] www.hardenhealthandfitness.co.ukEstablished 1991 property maintenance RuraScape RuraScape Landscaping & gardens Landscapingfriendly service& gardens, - Patios fully insured - TurfingPatios your DIY- Turfingdone for you! - Fencing - Lawns- Fencing & grassland 0 7-- LawnsHedge9 7 3 &management 6grassland 2 4 7 9 7 - Garden/scrubland- Hedge management clearance email:mike@michael- Garden/scrubland- chambers clearance. co. uk Tel 01993www. michael898733- chambers or 07811. co 598958. uk Tel Email01993 [email protected] 898733 or 07811 598958 Email [email protected]
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YOUR LOCAL Tiling With Care STOCKISTS & INSTALLERS OF Lighting Your Way Into The Future * GARAGE DOORS Slate SEP Local19.qxp_SLATE & Reliable MASTER Tradesman v3.3 22/08/2019 08:04 Page 22 STEPHEN& J. WILEY House & Home Services REMOTE OPERATORS ELECTRICIAN * GARAGE DOOR REPAIRS & SPARES INTERIOR DECORATING LOCAL RESIDENTS· –10% DISCOUNT· ON Additions Alterations Rewiring TILING – ALL TYPES STOCKED DOORS Surveys · Security Lighting P. Fletcher CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE HOME MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS 01993Cookers 778836 · / 01865Showers 246444 PERIOD PROPERTY EXPERIENCE Painting, Decorating FULLY INSURED MANY WORKINGTelephone DOORS Points & OPERATORS * & Wallpapering ON DISPLAY AT: NOSHOWROOM: JOB TOO SMALL Richard Buck Forty years’ + experience Bespoke, handmade curtains, UNIT 24, AVENUE ONE, STATION LANE, Elbie House East End Tel (01993)WITNEY, OXON, 882778/881409 OX28 4XZ blinds and soft furnishings Tel. 01993 891207 !!!"#$%$#&'((%)"(%# Tel: 01993 880166 or mobile 07884 430300 90 Main Road, Long Hanborough, Witney, OX29 8JY Mob: 07791 046583 Friendly and professional [email protected] service !"#$%&'(%%)*+,''' ' Free, no obligation BLINDS AND CURTAINS !"#$%&'()*#'+&"# consultations -%'.)/%"'0/1)2' "#*+*+,'34%$*#)*52' ! ! MadeJerrams to Measure Brothers Funeral) Directors Tel. 07880 880314 !"#$%&'()*+(#%,"(-".#/-%"01(2/0*&'"01( 33 High Street 3%//"0(.&4(#*&'"05( [email protected] ) ♦ Woodstock OX20 1TE WIDE RANGE OF FABRICS ,-.--)//0-12) www.kingfishersoftfurnishings.co.uk (01993) 8114916667-#"/%+-%#)2-#+/8*2+%557$971:' PHONE ♦ TRACKS AND POLES 01993 870606 • Private Chapel of Rest ♦ FREE FITTING • 24-hour personal family service FOR A FREE CONSULTATION • Pre-paid funeral plans
As the third generation of a funeral-directing family, Nicholas and SC www.windowdesign.coBenjamin Tonks believe that at the time of bereavement, compassion and the families’ wishes are paramount. In partnership withSalon the Church Copenhagen and community we endeavour to give the bereaved as much care and COMPLETE SERVICE DIRECT TO YOU AT HOME support as possible.3 Pendle Court, Pond Hill, Stonesfield, Oxon, OX29 8PZ. Telephone 01993 891101
Unisex hairdressing salon for ladies, gentlemen and children. September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 28 September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 31 September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 32 All aspects of hairdressing undertaken by our professionally trained stylists, Sally, Cheryl and Donna. We also offer earpiercing and our nail bar is open for OPI manicures, pedicures and Gelish Polish. Find us on Facebook. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 22 VEHICLE TECH !"#$%&'()*")$ Mobile mechanic servicing, repairs, diagnostics Member of the & MOTs prepared and arranged Chartered Institute of Building for all makes & models ! Friendly & reliable service at competitive rates, General property 19 years experience & based in Stonesfield maintenance and Call Rob on 01608 646100 or 07791 755771 high quality DIY ! Email: [email protected] General repairs All carpentry - Decorating Minor plumbing
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Acupuncture for stress reduction, pain relief, arthritis, migraine, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and more. clinic or in your own home.
consultation please contact me on 01993 898102 / 07791 278618 ROOFIX or visit All aspects of roof work undertaken Slates • Tiles • Flat roofs Chimneys • Valleys • Leadwork Moss clearance UPVC fascias • Soffits • Gutters
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Hypnotherapy
For help with anxiety, stress, pain control, insomnia, phobias, unwanted habits, confidence and self-esteem, exam and interview nerves. Acupuncture for stress reduction, pain relief, arthritis, migraine, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and more. Contact: Linda Flanigan clinic or in your own home. Clinical Hypnotherapist GHR Registered & Member (Lic.) of National Council for Hypnotherapy consultation please contact me on 01993 898102 / 07791 278618 Tel: 07866 360359 Email: [email protected] or visit www.lfhypnotherapy.co.uk Slate SEP 19.qxp_SLATE MASTER v3.3 22/08/2019 08:04 Page 27
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Imagine Life! NAIL CUTTING • CORNS • CALLUS if you had your own…! PROBLEM NAILS • FOOT MASSAGE Hypnotherapy Gardener! Treatment in the comfort of your own home Decorator! For help with anxiety, stress, SHARON DAVIES MCFHP MAFHP Babysitter! (01993) 891132pain control, / (M) insomnia, 07941843353 phobias, unwanted habits, confidence and De-clutterer! Registered memberself-esteem, of the exam British and Association interview I can help you clear your clutter, of Footnerves. Health Professionals weed out your wardrobe and find new homes for your unwanted items.! Dog Walker! "#$%&'()Contact: Linda Flanigan!%)#*+($,! Spring Cleaner! Clinical Hypnotherapist -#./'!0#))1!2!3(+%!45!6'!36.-7! GHR Registered & Member (Lic.) of National Moving House Help! Council089:!;!:;<<=!>?8@A!;BC!CAD8B89A@=!BE for Hypnotherapy !F;GHEBI! House & Pet Sitter…! JA/KA!LAAB!:A@<8BH!M>AG>!;BC!9:A8G!NE?
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Do you go on holiday and worry about your pets? For more details and how to book: I am a pet lover and I am offering to look after 07305 816115 your animals (feeding, playing, etc.) after school/ Hypnotherapy [email protected] weekends/school holidays. I also ride ponies, water plants and can supply a reference from my For help with anxiety, stress, www.gablecottagecotswolds.co.uk cat sitting job. Rates negotiable. pain control, insomnia, phobias, Please call 01993 898620 and ask for Tara Taylor. unwanted habits, confidence and self-esteem, exam and interview nerves. Acupuncture for stress reduction, pain relief, arthritis, migraine, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and more. Contact: Linda Flanigan clinic or in your own home. Clinical Hypnotherapist GHR Registered & Member (Lic.) of National Council for Hypnotherapy consultation please contact me on 01993
Plumbing, Heating, Bathroom 898102 / 07791 278618 Refurbishments/Installations, Tiling Tel: 07866 360359 THAMES VALLEY Architectural,Email: [email protected] Construction, Agricultural 01993 252643 or 07515 284286 TREE CAREor visit LTD www.lfhypnotherapy.co.uk& Equestrian Steel Fabrication Services [email protected] We also provide a full welding service A Stonesfield based company in Steel, Stainless Steel. Aluminium & providing a professional and reliable Titanium, including repairs to Steel, service in all aspects of tree surgery Aluminium and Iron castings and hedge management UNIT 4D Virtual Office Guardian PROBLEM FEET? FREE no obligation quote ENSTONE BUSINESS PARK Business Support Services ENSTONEImagine, OXFORDSHIRE Life! NAIL CUTTING • CORNS • CALLUS if you OX7had 4NPyour own…! All office, organisational and PROBLEMTel: NAILS 01993 • FOOT 891381 MASSAGE Gardener ! Jacqupaperwork functions untertaken TEL: 01608 678267 TreatmentMob: in the 07971018279 comfort of your own home Decorator! MOB: 07751 678412 jacquel SHARON DAVIES MCFHP MAFHP Email: [email protected] [email protected] 19.qxp_SLATEBabysitter MASTER v3.3! 22/08/2019 08:04 Page 32 [email protected] (01993) 891132 / (M) 07941843353 www.tvtreecare.co.uk WWW.WITNEYWELDING.COMDe-clutterer! Registered member of the British Association of Foot Health Professionals I can help you clear your clutter, weed out your wardrobe and find 23 Stonesfield Slate September 2019 new homes for your unwanted items.! Dog Walker !
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Jerrams Brothers Funeral Directors 33 High Street Woodstock OX20 1TE (01993) 811491
• Private Chapel of Rest • 24-hour personal family service • Pre-paid funeral plans
As the third generation of a funeral-directing family, Nicholas and Benjamin Tonks believe that at the time of bereavement, compassion and the families’ wishes are paramount. In partnership with the Church and community we endeavour to give the bereaved as much care and support as possible.
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A tree surgery company with A tree surgery company with the integrity you can trust. the integrity you can trust. Tel: 0845 458 2980 Tel: 0845 458 2980 Mobile: 07976 261850 Mobile: 07976 261850 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.townandcountrytrees.co.uk www.townandcountrytrees.co.uk
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We can assist you with specialist legal advice on Wills, inheritance tax planning, powers of attorney, helping with probate and generally Anna Burnside !"#$%&# [email protected] protecting your assets. We also help protect the vulnerable or elderly. GEOFF BOOTH Jacqui Birks $"' ()#&*$+# GEOFF BOOTH Our tax specialists are also here to help with your personal tax [email protected] Landscapingcompliance, including preparing · Paving personal tax· returnsWalling and o!ering Landscaping · Paving · Walling guidance on HMRC correspondence. They can also advise you on Driveways Fencing Treework Drivewaystax planning on the ·sale/gi Fencing"t of assets, including· Treework the new reporting · · of capitalBuilding gains on the sale maintenance of private residences. For further information, please contact: Building maintenance [email protected] DealingHardwood with your own a!airs logs and getting delivered them in order can appear Hardwood logs delivered daunting. We’re here to make life easier. Do pick up the phone or email us and we wouldFree be happy quotations to have a free, no-obligation initial chat with Free quotations you. We canTel: meet on01993 video call or 891945in person when safe to do so. Tel: 01993 891945 Mob: 07710 628248 The Carpenters’Mob: Workshop, 07710 Blenheim Palace Sawmills,628248 Combe, Oxfordshire OX29 8ET Email:T 01865 [email protected] 781 E [email protected] W www.theburnsidepartnership.com FOLLOW US ON: Email: [email protected]
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All types of electrical work undertaken, no job too big or small We are fully insured & NICEIC approved electrical contractors nstallations, Kitchens and Bathrooms Advertisements The Stonesfield Slate is a village , amenityOutbuildings & Rewires (Full & Partial) eplacement Line ads: £1.50 per 30 words. pro duced and distributed by volunteers. It Boxed ads: 1/16 page £2; 1/8 page £4; can not be held responsible for any of the inding 1/4 page £8; 1/2 page £12; whole page £24. views expressed in its pagesew or nor Additional does it Power Sockets/USB Sockets endorse any of the products or services Copy should be sent to [email protected] advertised. The editor and the pub lishers nstallations & Smoke Alarms by 15th of the month or dropped in to Slate SEPJenny 19.qxp_SLATE Haviland, Peakes MASTER House, v3.3 Peaks 22/08/2019 Lane, 08:04 Pagereserve 2624 the right to edit or shorten any Stonesfield, OX29 8PY (tel. 01993 891614). article sub mittedAll for Work pub Guaranteedlication. & Certification Supplied when Applicable Call 01993 222444 or Email [email protected] Web www.OxElec.co.uk
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898102 / 07791 278618 For all those jobs you need doing for all makes & models !!!!!!!!!!Tel: 07866 360359 ! Enjoyable drawing courses and workshops, nstallationsinside & Smoke & outside Alarms – I’m your man! all levels. Private tuition. Email: [email protected]!"#$%&"#! Friendly & reliable service at competitive rates, or visit www.lfhypnotherapy.co.ukCall Ade on 01993 813873 19 years experience & based in Stonesfield For more details contact Gabriele at '()*+,-*.%(/"0#.-#"#1-( [email protected] or 07825 631111 All Work Guaranteed & Certification Supplied when Applicable2-*301-( Call Rob on 01608 646100 or 07791 755771 For m ore or Call ring 01993 01993 222444 contact 880430 or Gabriele Email [email protected] at or email Web [email protected] www.OxElec.co.uk Email: [email protected] [email protected] 78#!9#5!*##!6'%33:! Experienced local Mathematics tutor with BSc September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 24 for students aged 8–14 years old. KINGSPROBLEM CLEANING FEET? SERVICE S (4+#."1.(5-$6(78897(:9;;<;( Tailored sessions based on the student’s individual Bed5-$=*-#->3".0+#?1+?@A(Imagine and Breakfast Life! needsNAILFamily with CUTTING abusiness focus on improving• est.CORNS over low • 40confidence CALLUS years. in the subject in a friendly way. !>>>?B&$C"#$%&"#?1+?@A(if you had your own…! PROBLEMCleaning NAILSwindows • FOOT – UVPC MASSAGE fascia at Combe Available on Thursdays after school. Gardener! boardsSessions – cladding will take place– frames in your – home. gutters. TreatmentSpecialized in the equipment comfort of yourfor cleaning own home ForDecorator details! SHARON DAVIESFrom £30 MCFHP p/h MAFHP "#$!%!&#'()*+*+,)!-.#*)!/! conservatory roofs & solar panels. pleaseBabysitter view! (01993)Call 891132 Jade on / 07758(M) 07941843353 512848 0$+)1234!$)3+%53)!6)$,+&)! or email [email protected] insured. www.greenclose.netDe-clutterer! RegisteredFor a professional member of and the Britishreliable Association service ring 01993of Foot 882727 Health Professionalsor 07974 991269. I can or help call you 01993 clear your891223 clutter, weed out your wardrobe and find new homes for your unwanted items.! September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 20 Stylist with 20 years of experience, specialising inDog colour Walker and! cutting "#$%&'()A. K. P. !DIXON%)#*+($,! VEHICLESpring Cleaner TEC! H Home-#./'!0#))1! & Garden2!3(+%!45!6'!36.- Maintenance7! Moving House Help! Mobile mechanic servicing, repairs, diagnostics 089:!;!:;<<=!>?8@A!;BC!CAD8B89A@=!BE& General Handyman !F;GHEBI! &House MOTs prepared& Pet and Sitter… arranged! JA/KA!LAAB!:A@<8BH!M>AG>!;BC!9:A8G!NE?
September 2019Every Stonesfield client Slate has exclusive use2624 of the salon during their appointment, one-in-one-out policy with a single stylist
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Tel: Cheryl on 07884412534 / Email: [email protected] Whinstay, Peaks Lane, Stonesfield, OX29 8PY Mobile hairdressing services available on request
September 2021 Stonesfield Slate 37 Our recent dry stone wall repairs have revealed interesting !nds The Estate Maintenance and Conservation team have been busy repairing sections of our nine-mile park perimeter stone wall, using traditional methods handed down for centuries. The team have uncovered several interesting finds which give us an insight into our past, including coins, clay pipes and even a pocket watch.
Local candlemaker wins our start-up business award We’re pleased to announce Littlemore Candle Company are our 2021 start-up competition winners. Molly Stevenson from Long Wittenham started out making candles as gifts for friends and family but, with the support of her mum Yvonne, Molly decided to switch from hobbyist to entrepreneur and has gone on to forge a successful brand from a favourite pastime. We remain committed to providing local start-up businesses with support and a busy marketplace to showcase their products. Shop online at littlemorecandleco.co.uk
We recently uncovered an original guide to North Leigh’s Roman Villa Deep within our archives, amongst uncatalogued papers from the 1950s, Palace Archivist Dr Alexa Frost recently uncovered an original guide to North Leigh Roman Villa, believed to have been the Duke of Marlborough’s personal copy, written by architect Henry Hakewill who excavated the villa in 1813. The guide reveals details of the luxurious villa that have been lost in the 200 years since its excavation, including a beautifully ornate mosaic floor. Read more at blenheimestate.com/news
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We’re not cracking open the prosecco yet to celebrate everything getting ‘back to normal’, but the increasing size of the ‘green list’ of countries is a positive sign for the coming months. We are hopeful that people will soon feel confident about booking their holidays again.
It’s difficult to secure accommodation in the UK at sensible prices, but we know where to look for what there is. Give us a call, or come in and see us and we’ll help you find the best holidays in this country or overseas.
If Government regulations change, we only work with suppliers who offer priority rebooking to new dates. Tel: 01993 627815 www.greatexperiencetravel.co.uk
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