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High St. Milton under Wychwood. Poplar Farm on the left, blacksmiths on the right. Note the board behind the tap. Taken c. 1900

Pony and Trap in Milton under Wychwood with Rosina Basson

Poplar Farm Milton under Wychwood showing car and outbuildings

George Bradley's lorry registration number UD4346 shown alongside his brother's garage in Station Road Shipton

Averys general store Shipton estimated early 1930s., The man on the left is believed to be Percy Avery

High Street Shipton under Wychwood: looking north by The Green. Details include Cucknell's butcher's van on the left; the Banbury bus; 'Topsy' Coombes on the footpath. There's possibly an electrical supply pole behind the bus. There is no seat around the tree. Date: c.1930

Harry Mawles in his Wolsey

Milton under Wychwood and bridge on Church Road 1927, with waggon and horses

Man on cycle in Shipton, Date unknown. Looking towards Milton.House is Wychwood

Truck in front of United Woodworking c. 1928. The man is Ernie Clemson, till crater

Car is Bob Coombe's. Car was very old and the date of photograph is put at around 1946

Franklin family with donkey cart - Whitsun Monday. The two boys in front of the vehicle were Sydney and Alex, who were both killed in World War One. Date: 1901

Mr Costiff who was the postman who carried mail from Chipping Norton to Shipton under Wychwood. Date: 1890-1900

Milton Church Road c.1900. Identity of the individual is unknown, but an interesting vehicle.

Old tractor probably from the Hartley farm. Hartley's farm was Coldstone Farm with associated buildings on the L shaped bend coming out of Shipton near the Lamb. Another part of the farm was up at Five Ways where a very large house has recently been built.

Tractor at Coldstone Farm about 1942 . Tom Turner with evacuee Jesse Hunt

Court Farm Shipton in 1920s

R J Bradley's Garage Station Road Shipton probably 1946. The car is a post war Austin Seven belonging to Bob Coombes as reported to Alan Vickers. United Woodworking Co Tillyard on the left.

Oxford Bus opposite Baptist Chapel High Street Milton c.1920/30

Lucy Dangerfield

Robert 'Bob' Griffin with steam traction engine and plough

High Street Shipton 1920s. Notice water coming out of Cospatrick Memorial

Shipton High Street and Green late 1920s. Topsy Coombes (probably) on the right.Probably Cooknells butchers van on the left

Unidentified car possibly belonging to Willis the saddler, in Shipton

The postman Shipton 1900s. Off to sort at Chipping Norton

Hay cart around 1910 possibly at Coldstone Farm Shipton

View from the start of Simons Lane back towards A361 with Olivers store on the right and house on left Date probably late 1980s or early 1990s. Building on right is part of the old tillyard.

Tractor replaces horses Court Farm Shipton c1959

George Bradley's Bedford lorry used in his haulage business. UD 8447 shown in Station Road looking North. Note masked headlights as used for wartime service. Used for moving the possessions of bombed out Londoners

George Bradley's lorry UD8447 in Station Road Shipton

Girls with horsetrap Milton. Probably of Davey the Butcher's family. Girls are, left to right, Rachel, Mary, Rachel ?, Olive and Jessie. Twopenny the horse. Taken August 1943

Mr Day, General Carter in Milton in the 1930s

Horse and trap in front of Townsend stores, the precursor to Averys General Stores in Shipton. Believed to be Mr Townsend on the trap

Two men on motor bike and sidecar. Man on motor bike is relative of Marilyn Watkins (Ernie)

Dorothy Treweek of Shipton who, with her husband, used to deliver milk throughout the village. Photo probably taken late 1940s. Mrs Treweek died in 2018

Reg Bradley in naval uniform just after WW1 on his motorbike. He founded Bradley's Garage in Shipton next to the main Tillyard on the Chipping Norton Road and was a close friend of Harry Combes