OBR Newsletters
The current edition of the newsletter is available in the members' area of the website. Previous editions can be downloaded here
Link to list of architectural terms and definitions
Click here to Download Acrobat Reader
The Oxon Recorder Issue 53 Winter 2012/13
Scotch Notches Further thoughts and questions | OBR trip to Hook Norton Brewing, tasting, eating, touring – the perfect OBR day out! | More Lost Buildings Could this be a rare church house? | Italy October 2012 The first ever OBR overseas field trip | Clarification of copyright status of OBR reports | Membership renewal It’s that time of year again. | Important new books on Vernacular Buildings Local buildings, local author.
Issue 52 Autumn 2012
Recording Day at Ewelme Saturday 13 October Old Mill House Flyer distributed via e-mail | Recording Day at Watlington Sunday 18 November The Town Hall | OBR Annual Presentations Day, Ewelme Saturday 24 November. Catch up with the OBR year | Scotch Notches A different interpretation | OBR visit to Gloucester A report on a most enjoyable day out | More Lost Buildings We need an identification | Recent Recording The deconstruction of the rear range of 84 St Aldates, Oxford | Volume XVII VCH launch with special offer flyer to OBR members enclosed
Issue 51 Summer 2012
OBR visit to Dorchester-on-Thames A well-illustrated report | OBR Annual Report & town walk, Deddington Report and AGM Minutes | More Lost Buildings And a member’s comment | Membership Renewal Have you got a pink reminder? |
Ewelme Recording We’ve started, more to come | Recent Recording Street House, Long Wittenham & 84A St Aldates, Oxford. Brief outline of work in progress |
Recording Walled Gardens An invitation to join in a neglected area of research |
Demise of Abingdon Buildings Record But OBR welcomes some members |
Launch Friends of Oxfordshire History Centre A new group will be forming |
Book Collections. Available to OBR members |
Issue 50 Spring 2012
OBR AGM and town walk, Deddington | OBR recording day at Street House, Long Wittenham | Lost Buildings of Oxfordshire: An OBR initiative to archive information on demolished buildings | Redecorating: It’s remarkable what you find when you take off the wallpaper | Service Rooms in Oxfordshire buildings | VCH Volume 16 Henley, Review | Ewelme Recording | Recent Recording | Proposal for an OBR trip to Italy .
Issue 49 Winter 2011/12
OBR Members’ Presentations Day A day so full, it needed two reporters |
Relieving Arches A range of solutions to a widespread builder’s problem (get the pun?) | Crown Strut Roofs in Henley A solution to another builder’s problem? | VCH Ewelme Project Opportunities to join in a joint VCH/OBR initiative | Website News See what’s new | Membership Renewal It’s that time of year again | More recording at The Long Gallery, Abingdon Abbey Still time to join in | Professional Experience Could you broaden your skills?
Issue 48 Autumn 2011
Recent recording | Report of VAG Conference on 18th century buildings | VCH Volume XVI (Henley on Thames & Environs) launch | OBR Members’ Presentations Day Sunday 27 November
Issue 47 Summer 2011
VAG Spring Conference April 2011 A successful conclusion | Wallingford AGM and town walk May 2011| Whitchurch Silk Mill and town walk June 2011 | OBR outing to Wheatley Mill and Rectory July 2011| John Steane Retirement Dinner | Recording Day at Enstone Mill
Issue 46 Spring 2011
VAG Spring Conference April 2011: Progress on our big event | Rebuilding Littleworth Part 2 | Recent Recording: Facy’s Store, Henley-on-Thames |
VAG Winter Conference report: Service buildings and servants accommodation | Book Reviews: An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire and The Origins of Oxford Street Names
Issue 45 Winter 2010/11
VAG Spring Conference April 2011 Progress | Exploring Littleworth – 19th C rural buildings | Update on Springview Plans | Have you looked at our website recently? | OBR in North Oxfordshire | An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire | Blewbury Presentations Day
Issue 44 Autumn 2010
Recording Day, Abingdon Abbey | OBR Presentations Day, Blewbury | Report on OBR Excursion to Coleshill | What’s in a Name? An Illustrated Glossary – Introducing an occasional series on understanding buildings | Recent Recording
Issue 43 Summer 2010
OBR Excursion to Coleshill | Recording Day Steventon | Abingdon – unique shoe repair workshop closes | Springview 2010 report | Training Days Bookings | Documentary research for Steventon | Wheatley Windmill | Tewkesbury Tour | OBR AGM minutes and report on St Thomas’ Oxford walking tour | Recent Recording
Issue 42 Spring 2010
Springview 2010 | OAHS to report on Listed Buildings consent applications | Cherwell Dovecotes Volunteers needed | Concealments – Introducing a new initiative to record deliberately hidden objects | OBR AGM and St Thomas’ Oxford tour | Recent Recording ‘The Old Bell’, Henley-on-Thames | Oxfordshire History Website | Recording Days | Training Days
Issue 41 Winter 2009
Henley Book Launch | Training programme: your views needed | OBR Presentation Day: Shipton-under-Wychwood walkabout and talkabout |
Markets and Market Places | Vernacular Buildings in Normandy | OBR Excursions
Issue 40 Autumn 2009
OBR Presentation Day | Blewbury buildings | Ceiling joists in Henley | Marlborough report | Historic Farm Buildings Group: The High Weald of Kent and Sussex | Members questionnaire
Issue 39 Summer 2009
OBR excursion to Malborough | Buildings and Farming: past, present and future | The Shaven Crown, Shipton-under-Wychwood | Faringdon AGM report | Time Team at Burford Priory | OPT Open Doors | WWW volunteer for the Burford Probate Project | Mystery water trough
Issue 38 Spring 2009
From Attic to Cellar | AGM and town walk, Faringdon | Recording days: East Hagbourne and Shipton-under-Wychwood | OPT Open Doors | Lawrences, Blewbury | Time Team at Radcot | OBR goes East | Chalk as a building material | The Weald & Downland Museum revisited
Issue 37 Winter 2008/09
Membership update | Presentation Day at Great Tew | Books to borrow | From Attic to Cellar | OAHS building officer | Harpsden Court
Issue 36 Autumn 2008
Presentation Day at Great Tew | Exhibitions | The Great Barn at Ashbury Manor | Home Farm House at Charlton-on-Otmoor | Harpsden Court | Oak Bark tannery in Devon | Vernacular Interiors | Ancient hedgerows as property boundaries
Issue 35 Summer 2008
OBR takes on a new role as Educator | The Malthouse and Old White Hart, Henley | John Coombes House, Oxford | Burford Book Launch | Time Team at Radcot | Exploring Charlbury | Ramsden Parish Domesday Project
Issue 34 Spring 2008
AGM at Charlbury | John Steane Day | OAHS/OBR Lecture by Paul Barnwell | The Charlbury Initiative | Time Team at Radcot | Recent Recording | Building a WWW Presence | Electronic Resources | Forthcoming Events
- Issue 33 Winter 2007/08
Spring 2011 VAG Conference | Building a WWW Presence | Threats to the VCH and Cogges | OBR Goes West - Again | Recent Recording | Hathaway's in Abingdon | Electronic Sources for Oxfordshire Building Historians - Issue 32 Autumn 2007
Woodchester Mansion and Frocester Court Farm | A Drying Kiln in Henley | Childrey Recording Day | Split Beam Truss | An Interesting Roof in North Stoke - Issue 31 Summer 2007
Recording/Training Days | AGM and Wantage Walkabout | Oxford, Corpus Christi and Coombe House | OBR Goes West | Oxpast 2007 - Issue 30 Spring 2007
Lines and Curves | Yet More About Rats and Pigeons | Naval Timbers | Burford Volunteers Day | Denchworth Manor | 81 The Causeway, Steventon - Issue 29 Winter 2006/7
The Green Man Trail | More About Rats and Pigeons | Presentation Day | The Old Rectory, Checkendon | Myrtle Cottage, Kidlington - Issue 28 Autumn 2006
Kelmscott 2006 | Rats and Pigeons | Drawing Tutorials | Inns Taverns and Public Houses - Issue 27 Summer 2006
Adventures of an Exhibition | The West Legacy | AGM and Banbury Town Walk | Ashbury Manor | No.1 High Street, Abingdon | Useful Websites - Issue 26 Spring 2006
Recording Days at Kelmscott | Historic Thatch | Oxford's West End - Issue 25 Winter 2005/6
Diffusion and Invention: Vernacular Building in England and the New World | 12 Ock Street, Abingdon | Sundial House, Great Haseley | Presentation Day - Issue 24 Autumn 2005
Invitation to OBR Presentation Day | Hampshire Excursion | Window Tax | Photographic Training Day | Recent Recording - Issue 23 Summer 2005
Oxfordshire Buildings Record wins second Awards for All Grant | VCH Burford Project | Granary at Caswell | 5th AGM - Issue 22 Spring 2005
Lower Berrick Farm – denrochronology | Oxford City Group | Burford Project | Wheatley Local History Day | Ock Street Then and Now - Issue 21 Winter 2004/5
Visit to Michelmersh Brickworks | Presentation Day | Vernacular Buildings and Hearth Tax | Witney Buildings in the VCH | - Issue 20 Autumn 2004/3
Chalgrove Visit | Scarfe and Cranks | Radley Old Vicarage | Signet Farmhouse | Recording Farm Features | Carpenter's Cutting List for 3-bay House - Issue 19 Summer 2004
2004 Annual General Meeting | Village Appraisals and Maps | Curioser and Curioser | Princes Manor Farm, Harwell - Issue 18 Spring 2004
Cherwell District Dovecotes | OAHS Dendrochronology Project | Abingdon Buildings Record - Issue 17 Winter 2003/04
A Small House in Abingdon | Visit to Chalgrove Manor | South Oxfordshire DC Building Plans | Rowstock Field Barns | Presentation Day - Issue 16 Autumn 2003
Farm Buildings | Burford Project | Visit to Chiltern Open Air Museum