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Decorated boats and gardens Take a stroll along the towpath and see how local canalside The Festival is a wonderful residents have responded to our Best Dressed competition. opportunity to find out about the , past, Fancy Dress parade present and future. The theme is ‘Water’. Let your ideas flow! The Canal has inspired Dog Show pre-Raphaelite artists and Do you have the mutt with the mostest? Plenty of writers such as John Betjeman categories for your best friend to shine in. and Philip Pullman. It helped supply munitions during both Young film makers World Wars, fought off closure See one-minute canal life videos recorded on mobile phones. and development – and is a haven for wildlife. More details and full programme inside. Come and enjoy canal traditions through song, dance, storytelling, literature and conversations.

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Canal and River Trust Friends of Rec Inland Waterways Association PR_6825_CRT_Oxford_Canal_Ad_am2_010818_V3.indd 1 01/08/2018 16:02 Jericho Living Heritage Trust Main event Wraparound events Jericho Wharf Trust Saturday 8 September Friday 8 September - 9pm Partnership 12 noon - 6pm The White Hart, St Margaret’s Institute Aristotle Lane Sunday 9 September Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury Recreation Ground St Barnabas Church Waterways Residents’ Association oxfordcanalheritage.org/festival oxfordcanalheritage.org/festival Please check website closer to the event as times may change.

Special events Live music Fantastic bands perform music including Heritage walk, 11am folk, rock and soul, world music with From to Aristotle Lane with Seby Ntege (fresh from WOMAD), Jericho Welcome to this year’s Festival! The Canal is one of local historian, author, and boat resident Singers (aka the Keepers’ Chorus), Oxford’s best-kept secrets and we want to put it on Mark Davies. To pre-book email The Hawkmen and more. the map! [email protected]. No charge but contributions welcomed. Delicious food and drink We plan to bring the Canal to life every two years with A range of delicious food and drink from music, food and fun – all with a watery theme. Canal Cinema, 12-6pm Middle Eastern, Japanese and Indian to cakes and crêpes, plus beer and café! Stop off at St. Margaret’s Institute, St. Whether you’re a resident, a boater, a leisure enthusiast Margaret’s Road (next to The Anchor Canal Traditions or a visitor - all are invited. Our aim is to celebrate the ). A unique chance to view film shorts about local history and the canal, plus Design your own boat, mobile making, Canal, share its stories and also raise money to buy and roses & castles and some exciting prizewinning entries in the Young Don’t miss… renovate a community . street art. Canal memorabilia — and a People’s Video Competition. chance to have a go yourself. The Big Canal Ceildh Band Family fun Dog Show, 1.30pm Sunday 9 September Swingboats, bouncy castle, Boo Boo the Fun for all the family. Free to enter – no 7pm, St Barnabas Church clown. Children’s activities with soft play, previous experience required. Many Grateful thanks to all our sponsors and supporters: face painting and more. different classes including waggiest tail, Let your hair down at the end of the Barnsbury Charitable Trust best fancy dress, best sausage catcher. Along the canal day with Ceilidh dance and live music. Beaumont Veterinary Group To register your dog please visit Canal and River Trust oxfordcanalheritage.org Get into the Festival spirit by decorating Bar, crêpes. Tickets £12.50, Kids £7.50 Daisies your boat or the bottom of your garden. oxfordcanalheritage or Doris Field Charitable Trust From balloons to bunting, let your wegottickets.com Canal Olympics, 3pm imagination run riot, and give our Loch Fyne Something for everyone from Silly Boat much-loved backwater the full- frontage Lucy Properties relay, Sack of Coal race, Duck Egg and treatment. Prize for the best display! Properties Spoon race, Canal Tug Challenge, Trip boat North Parade Market Human Wheelbarrow race, Welly Quoits Nuffield College to Caucus Race (where everybody wins!) Slow down and enjoy the Canal afloat aboard the Gerry Ferry www.oxfordferryboats.com. Regular departures. For more info and Fancy dress competition, 3.45pm Thames Water fares, check Festival website. Dress up, join in or simply watch the St Margaret’s Area Society The Cut parade. Costumes with an aquatic theme. Waterside Management Company Talks, stories, children's shows. The Wildlife Walk, Thanks also to everyone who donated prizes Tooley's Boatyard 4.30 pm Information about the oldest working Three Chords and the Truth A guided walk around the Trap Grounds dry dock on the Inland Waterways. Watch Local Wildlife Site and Town Green, led blacksmith displays on the mobile forge! Friday 7 September From 7.30 pm, The White Hart, by Linda Losito and Bob Cowley, ending Makers & More with an alfresco glass of wine. Join us by Wolvercote Aristotle Bridge. Makespace Oxford Open House and Exhibition of residents’ work, including youth music workshop plus tea and Eclectic session/jam. Bring coffee served in the gallery space. instruments and join Wolvercote “master of many styles” Ben Avison. Or just come along, have a drink and Information stalls, including Canal and enjoy the music. Rivers Trust, and a selection of local traders. The Oxford Canal Festival will take place at Aristotle Lane Recreation Ground OX2 6TP, Entrance over Aristotle Lane Bridge, next to the Anchor Pub in Kingston Road. From Hythe Bridge St (city centre) or from near Phil & Jim School. Wolvercote (near The Plough Inn) just walk along the Canal, entrance to Festival just before Aristotle Lane Bridge. There is no parking at this event. We encourage you to come on foot, bike or public transport.

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Wolvercote Frenchay St Peter’s Roundabout Road The College Bridge Anchor RD. 7 Railway Aristotle Bridge Bridge Oxford Canal Ball’s Heritage Trail 6 5 WORCESTER ST. GEORGE ST. 8 OXFORD CANAL St Barnabas The Bridge Trap Church Nuffield Oxford Wolvercote Plough Inn Grounds College NEW RD.Castle Lock Local Duke's/ Wildlife Site Worcester Shuttleworth's Walton Well College Lock 9 Road Bridge Former Lucy’s Original Ironworks EHTYH EGDIRB 1 .TS Jericho Boatyard & terminus of the Duke’s A40 4 Community Centre Oxford Canal Cut Lock PORT MEADOW 3 2 Swing HOLLYBUSH ROW Bridge PARK END ST. Thames Path Oxford This map is adapted from the Oxford Canal Heritage Trail. The Station

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1 Hythe Bridge St 6 bridge Until 1805, the Oxford Canal was the In the 1960s the Canal was under threat. shortest water route from the to After a fact-finding cruise on the canal, A thousand-year old wharf. Site of former Spot the kingfisher mural under the bridge London. Barbara Castle (Minister for Transport) Canal basin, now Nuffield College. and the real McCoy in the nearby Trap rejected a proposal for closure. grounds. 2 Jericho Boatyard Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure has a scene set in St Barnabas Church, It was in Jericho that Burne-Jones and 7 St Edward’s School Threatened with closure. Championed by William Morris first saw Rosetti's paintings Philip Pullman and others. One of the first pupils was Kenneth The first episode of , was and decided to become painters. Grahame, author of The Wind in the partially filmed in Jericho. The spin-off show 3 St Barnabas Church Willows, who must have seen horse-drawn Lewis also has stories based there. The Oxford Canal has 48 locks. Features in a wide range of literature, from . Inspiration for the scene Thomas Hardy through to P. D. James. where Toad escapes from prison to hitch a Philip Pullman set parts of his novels There used to be a coal wharf at Hayfield Road. ride on a boat? Northern Lights, Lyra’s Oxford and La Belle 4 Eagle Works Sauvage in Jericho. Nuffield College now stands on the old coal 8 Balls Bridge, Wolvercote Lucy Group has been based in Oxford for wharf. A public car park covers the old over 200 years. in 2008 its old foundry and Named after a former landlord of the You can spot kingfishers along the canal and goods wharf. factory, Eagle Works, was converted into a Plough Inn and scene of a fatal brawl. in the Trap Grounds. new head office and residential flats. Test your knowledge – pick up our Canal 9 Wolvercote Lock The Oxford Canal is 78 miles long today. Quiz questionnaire at the Festival. 5 Aristotle Bridge Rebuilt in the 1840s, as were all the locks When it was completed in 1790 it was 90 between Isis Lock and Duke's Cut. A number miles long. Follow the Oxford Canal Heritage Trail audio guide. Called ‘Workhouse Bridge’ because of its link oxfordcanalheritage.org/oxford-canal-heritage-trail with the City Workhouse, established on of people were drowned here. The boaters’ term for falling was “takin’ a look”. A Tom Pudding is the name of a small canal Rats and Mice Hill (now Wellington Square) barge. in 1771.

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