Photographic Archive

A team of our members have been digitising all our archive of photographs. This is an ongoing project, with many more photos still to be processed.

Here are the photos so far added. Please click on a subject or theme for more – or simply view photos in each album individually or as a slideshow.

A wide selection of photographs relating to the Wychwoods is also available on the Oxfordshire County Council’s Heritage Search website here >>> [Opens in new tab ]

Photographic Archive » Leafield

Fancy Dress competitors at Leafield Village Fete. Date: 1930

Leafield; a village view. Location to be verified, but there appears to be a chapel in the left of the photograph. Date: not known

Photograph of new building work of the Power House at the Leafield Wireless Radio Station site. Date: not known

Village Green and Pond in Leafield. Date: not known

Copy of a photograph of Leafield Wireless Station taken from Shipton Downs, Shipton under Wychwood. Date: not known

Photograph of one room and operating quarters at the Leafield wireless Radio Station. Date: not known

Aerial view of Leafield Technical Centre Date: c. 1990s

Aerial photograph of the new Leafield Technical Centre - TWR-1. Date: c 1990s

Leafield Football Club team 1926-1927 Winners of the Charlbury Charity Cup Final Date: 1927

The Baptist Chapel, Leafield. The building has been converted to a domestic residence (1990s). The Wireless Station masts can just be seen in the distance. Date: not known

Leafield Football Club team; Winners of the Wychwood Cup.

Leafield Football Club photograph when they won the Milton under Wychwood British Legion Six-a-Side Cup 1932-1933

Schools in Leafield. Date: not known

Fairspear House Leafield. Now the home of John Cochrane. Formerly the home of Farmer Calvert. Given by Mary Lockwood of the Ridings Leafield whose mother was in service there.

Langley Farm. Farm incorporates part of hunting lodge of Henry VII. This is the royal insignia.

Langley Farm south of Leafield. Built in 1858 but incorporating parts of the original Tudor hunting lodge belonging to Henry VII

Potters Hill Farm (near Leafield) and Dennis's Grandfather. Date: not known (but reference on the back 48/49 could be 1948-1949)

All images on our website are low-resolution quality. High resolution versions are available on request to the society. Please contact us for more information.

Please note that the WLHS is a non profit making society, serving the local community. All photographs submitted to the society, unless otherwise directed, are preserved in the society’s archives and may be reproduced for non profit purposes such as magazine articles and papers.

Members of the WLHS who carried out the scans of John Rawlins’ extensive archive of photographs were:

AM:   Alan Murphy | AWV:   Alan Vickers | CPC:   Peter Crofts
CRB:   Chris Bailey | CST:   Chris Trotman | ELW:   Edwin Wilson
IMD:   Ian Drainer | JVW :   Janet Wiltshire