Unidentifi ed fl ying object over Banbury?
M
any thanks to Mr Witts of Banbury for sending us this picture of what he believes to be a
U.F.O. flying over Crouch Hill. We think that we know how this picture was taken - do you?
M
any thanks to Gloria
Hocking from London Apprentice in Cornwall for contacting us about this picture which featured in the June issue of the magazine. She told us that the mace bearer, who would have been dressed in purple was a Mr Jackson. The event was the annual parade which took place on Corpus Christi Sunday. The parade would have travelled from St John’s Church in Banbury, around the cross and back.
M D
ear Sir, You recently
asked in your magazine if anyone knew the details of the photo of the five boys camping. I can admit to being the lad in the centre of the group. It was a group of
boys from the local (1460 Banbury Sqd) Air Training Corps who were doing their bronze expedition for the Duke of Edinburgh Award. They were the first group from the local ATC to enter the Award scheme and the year of the photo must have been 1957 or 1958. It was taken at a spot in some fields near to Broughton and three days
were spent under canvas in what I remember as glorious weather. Our claim to fame, as recorded in the Banbury Advertiser at the time, was that we ate about 80 sausages in three days! The names of those involved, from right to left, are: Malcolm McFall,
Tony King, Trevor Trivett, Alan Tuffery, and Terry Simons. I am still in touch with Malcolm (Mac) but have lost contact with the others. Hope this helps Trevor Trivett PS. By the way, Mac and I also see Bruce Cox on occasion and we would claim that he was never ‘cute’, even at 16!
any thanks to Peter Wore for popping into
our offices last month to tell us about the photographs of the telephone exchange which appeared in the July edition of the Four Shires Magazine. Mr Wore told us that the
photographs show the people involved in the conversion of the Kings Sutton Telephone exchange from manual (operator) to automatic operation in about 1960. The switchboard operator was Mrs McGinley and the engineers were Bob Butler and Dave Hawtin and their boss Ernie Jessop. The local maintenance engineer Gerry Tickell is also pictured. Mrs McGinley would have also had a bed by the switchboard in case of an emergency call in the middle of the night!
• Pictured right are Maz and Jimmy who have produced this fantastic carved village sign post. It has been formed from the stump of the last Dutch Elm tree planted just outside the village. Jimmy assured us that the tree carving was not yet quite complete and that vine leaves, apricots and fl ying owls were soon to appear!
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