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  • Boffin memorial window

    Boffin memorial window

    09/12/2019
    Featuring Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist.
  • Westminster: Class of 61 - 64

    Westminster: Class of 61 - 64

    21/11/2019
    Group photo of friends who were at the College from 1961 - 1964
  • George Maunder memorial window

    George Maunder memorial window

    18/11/2019
    Featuring flowers and fruits from the bible.
  • Ministers at Cowley Road Methodist Church (Wesley Hall)

    Ministers at Cowley Road Methodist Church (Wesley Hall)

    11/11/2019
    1904 onwards
  • Scripture examinations

    Scripture examinations

    11/11/2019
    Scripture Examinations were widely used to encourage biblical knowledge and understanding.
  • John Afford

    John Afford

    05/11/2019
    John was sent to France to join a regular army battalion that had already suffered serious losses. Seven months later he was wounded and evacuated to hospital, but then returned to the front.
  • Reginald Abrams

    Reginald Abrams

    05/11/2019
    Born in Oxford, Reginald became an assistant at the Bodleian Library and gained an Oxford University degree. He survived when a bullet passed through the peak of his cap in 1915.
  • George Turtle

    George Turtle

    02/11/2019
    George became an upholsterer but served in the army in 1900 - 1902. In 1915, aged 37 and the father of four, he was sent to fight in Salonika in Greece in the face of extreme heat, cold and disease.
  • Arthur Skuce

    Arthur Skuce

    02/11/2019
    Arthur's family ran a butcher's shop in Walton Street. He went to France in November 1914 and was in active combat for the next three years, gradually being promoted as men died around him.
  • S Sims

    S Sims

    01/11/2019
    Not yet identified, due to the difficulty of matching this initial and surname with war or census records.
  • Reuben Nicholls

    Reuben Nicholls

    01/11/2019
    Reuben's father died when he was 18: his mother took over his father's trade as an umbrella maker. By 1911 Reuben was a gunner in the army, and as soon as war broke out he was sent to France.
  • Frederick Martin

    Frederick Martin

    01/11/2019
    Frederick lived in several parts of Oxford and was associated with a number of its Methodist churches. He became a saddler and maintained harnesses for horses pulling field guns.
  • Joseph Harris

    Joseph Harris

    31/10/2019
    Born in Surrey, Joseph moved to Oxford as a child. When war broke out he enlisted even though he was under age. He was only 17 when he was killed.
  • Sidney Griffin

    Sidney Griffin

    30/10/2019
    Sidney was born in Oxford and gained a place at Jesus College. He soon joined up, and was sent to Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) where he fought alongside Indian troops.
  • Christopher Choldcroft

    Christopher Choldcroft

    29/10/2019
    Christopher's father ran a hairdressing business in Woodstock Road, but Christopher became a Master Bootmaker and emigrated to Canada.
  • Cradle roll certificate

    Cradle roll certificate

    23/10/2019
    Wendy reflects on and remembers Wesley Memorial Church when she was a child.
  • William Chandler

    William Chandler

    22/10/2019
    William's father was a grocer who eventually owned a shop in St Giles. William joined a Field Ambulance so would not have carried arms.
  • Lewis Brownjohn

    Lewis Brownjohn

    22/10/2019
    Lewis was born in Oxford, and his father was a Local Preacher of the United Methodist Free Churches.
  • Thomas Birtchnell

    Thomas Birtchnell

    22/10/2019
    Thomas became a printer's machine minder and moved to Oxford. He joined the Royal Engineers and worked on communications and water supplies for the troops.
  • Primitive Methodist Society Roll Book 1932

    Primitive Methodist Society Roll Book 1932

    15/10/2019
    Names of members of Primitive Methodist Chapels in the Oxford area in 1932
  • Grace Samkange

    Grace Samkange

    14/10/2019
    Grace intended to come to Oxford for just two years from her native Zimbabwe.
  • Rachel Blainey

    Rachel Blainey

    14/10/2019
    A mother of young children who works in publishing.
  • Frederick Beale

    Frederick Beale

    11/10/2019
    Born in Oxford, Frederick married aged 24 and moved to Nottinghamshire. He joined up there and went to France in August 1915.
  • Samuel Denton

    Samuel Denton

    13/09/2019
    "..he had to encounter much persecution from his relations, in which, however her manifested the spirit and and conduct of the Christian."
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