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Issue 42 Spring 2010
Springview 2010 An important new OBR initiative, all members invited to participate | Caseworkers needed OAHS is recruiting caseworkers 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 guided walking tour: A rare chance to visit. | Recent Recording ‘The Old Bell’, Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames – a remarkable survival from 1325 | Oxfordshire History Website launch of a new multi-period searchable local history site | Recording Days How to get involved | Training Days Bookings now being taken
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