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Photographer, sometime publisher, friend of Old Headington.
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Brian Bilston
4 days ago
This, please.
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kottke.org
9 days ago
360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNGâs Enterprise D, Voyager, Defiant, etc.) (via @mike.teczno.com)
[mijofr.github.io]
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Trekorama!
360° of Star Trek
https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/
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Oliebollen! May your oudejaarsavond be gezellige ... đłđ±đŹđ§
11 days ago
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Oxford Clarion
12 days ago
Everyone does a 2025 roundup, but only the Clarionâs has: đ Seagull attacks đșđž J.D. Vanceâs summer holidays đ© Sewage 1, housing 0 đŠ Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the A40 đ Our pick of the long reads đŹ Lab space. So much lab space. Read it online:
oxfordclarion.uk/a-year-in-ox...
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A year in Oxfordshire, 2025
A growth corridor, a new stadium, a new branch line, a congestion charge, and partying seagulls. Itâs been a busy year in Oxfordshire. Here are just a few of the highlights. January Growth, part on...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/a-year-in-oxfordshire-2025/?ref=oxford-clarion-newsletter
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Boxing Day in Headington /3: scenes from the
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CS Lewis Nature Reserve
16 days ago
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Boxing Day in Headington /2: scenes from Headington Quarry Morris pt 2, a video
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Boxing Day in Headington /2: scenes from Headington Quarry Morris pt 1
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Boxing Day in Headington /1: scenes from a nativity, St Andrew's
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History of Oxford, UK
18 days ago
Happy Christmas!
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Headington News
19 days ago
Headington Quarry Morris dancers: Approximate times of their performances of the traditional Mummersâ Play outside two pubs and two former pubs in Quarry on Boxing Day (Friday 26 December 2025)
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Switching on the Christmas tree lights at Headington crossroads, organised by Headington Action
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Switching on the Christmas tree lights at St Andrew's, Old Headington, 6 Dec 2025
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Postcard From The Past
about 1 month ago
Something new. A
#postcardadventcalendar
. Stick with me for some nicely odd vintage images for the month, and you may end up with an expression like our friend in a deckchair in front of painted sea. Hold tight. The thread starts today: 1. Woman in a deckchair. Cheers, T.
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James OâBrien
about 1 month ago
All the coverage of Reeves âlyingâ debagged in a single sentence.
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derek van vliet
about 2 months ago
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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Oxford Clarion
2 months ago
Are Oxfordâs poorest areas sharing in its prosperity? As billionaires pour more money into the cityâs AI and biotech industries, we take a deep dive into gentrification in Oxford and the cityâs housing crisis. (With maps and data!)
oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-...
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Gentrifying Oxford vs the left-behinds
Oxfordâs poorest areas are not sharing equally in the cityâs increased prosperity, new figures suggest. Parts of Minchery Farm, Rose Hill, and Wood Farm are now suffering more deprivation compared to...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-oxford-vs-the-left-behinds/
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Cold War Steve
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âA perfect coincidenceâ: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies
The extremely unusual phenomenon â also known as red lightning â lasts for a millisecond and is rarely visible to the naked eye
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/22/red-lightning-new-zealand-red-sprites?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Mark Crean
3 months ago
The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfieldâs work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.
#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford
photooxford.org
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Andrew Gant
4 months ago
I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP
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Fergus Craig
4 months ago
I've been meaning to write about me, my family and murder for decades and have finally plucked up the courage...
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Me, my family and murder.
I think I must have been about nine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ferguscraig/p/me-my-family-and-murder?r=1zmad6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Thanks to
@oxfordhistory.bsky.social
I am reminded that I have some photos from St Giles' Fair taken in the 1980s,
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Project 2013, week 5: vintage and retro photos
In this week I focused on some found film, namely a roll I took over 30 years ago at the St Giles Fair, Oxford. The pictures were probably taken with a Pentax ME Super using Ilford HP5 black and wh...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stanbury/albums/72157632645772246/
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Flickytwit
4 months ago
The finest response I've seen so far.
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Mark Corke đżđŠđŸ
4 months ago
First time in half a century that Queen has countenanced one of their songs being published in a language other than English. And it is beautiful.
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Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir
https://youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?si=0LX8uEYhGAGNIaRd
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Olaf Falafel
6 months ago
Making kids laugh can sometimes be difficult but when you get it just right itâs a brilliant thing!
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For a moment I thought the French had made a film about a quiet suburb in Oxford, mais non, it's the latest from the director of Midsomar
6 months ago
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Paris nighttime
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Vincennes
Paris
https://flic.kr/p/2rhBWif
6 months ago
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Davenant đž
6 months ago
A doctor is arrested by the police as a terrorist for peacefully protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action, Parliament Square today, from my series âRebellion!â
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Jousting in Sete
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Sete jousting
Will it be Red or Blue this time? ZV-E10 + Samyang AF 35/2.8 + digital zoom
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Headington News
6 months ago
The Viking Sports Club in Old High Street is holding a family fun day on Saturday 26 July 2025 from midday to midnight to celebrate its 75th birthday. Report, including some information about the club's history, here in the Oxford Mail:
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2530853...
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Ceci n'est pas un poissonnerie
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Ceci n'est pas un poissonnerie
Quayside, Sete. If there's one thing they don't sell here it's fish. I think this qualifies as a freshly minted ghost sign.
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6 months ago
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Photographers all the way up
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Photographers, all the way up!
Reflections in a modern artwork, outside the Musée Calvet, Avignon
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Olaf Falafel
6 months ago
Another day, another revelationâŠ
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Oxford Clarion
6 months ago
đšClarion exclusiveđš With Oxford County Council launching a consultation on the proposed congestion charge, we asked Luke Marion of Oxford Bus Company to share his thoughts on tackling what he calls 'Oxford's traffic emergency' to help deliver a world-class bus service in Oxford.đ
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Oxfordâs traffic emergency needs a bold approach â Luke Marion on the congestion charge
A temporary congestion charge could be introduced to Oxford this autumn to get the cityâs streets moving again. Among its main aims is speeding up bus journey times, currently suffering from queues on...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/luke-marion-on-the-congestion-charge/
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The Friends of Old Headington
7 months ago
Thank you to all who came to support our Open Gardens event on a hot sunny afternoon yesterday. Income from this event helps the Friends in its support of the Conservation Area, as we have done for over 65 years now. We also support other local charities with aims and objectives similar to our own.
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Jonathan Key
7 months ago
Reset yourself by watching "Ten Meter Tower", a gorgeous 16-minute documentary about people on the edge -- in the nicest possible way. Simple and fascinating. Via
@kottke.org
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Ten Meter Tower
For their short film Ten Meter Tower, Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson coaxed dozens of people to jump off of a 10-met
https://kottke.org/17/02/ten-meter-tower
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Mark Rothko
7 months ago
Purple Brown #artbots #rothko
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4878
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Headington News
7 months ago
Itâs the feast day of St Etheldreda of Ely today (23 June), so here is Headingtonâs Etheldreda Laing, who was named after her. She was an early autochrome photographer, and had a darkroom in her mansion, which she and her husband named Bury Knowle House:
www.headington.org.uk/history/famo...
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Etheldreda Janet Laing and Headington
https://www.headington.org.uk/history/famous_people/laing.html
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Excellent article in the Oxford Sausage on one of the gardens open in next week's Open Gardens event here in Old Headington (2:30-5:30, 29 June).
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The Friends of Old Headington
7 months ago
Coming next Sunday 29 June 2:30-5:30 - the Friends of Old Headington Open Gardens; details in the poster. W.I. teas in the village hall and plant stall in St Andrew's Road.
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If anyone sees my old Gazelle e-bike about town, do shout! Stolen, probably, yesterday from
#Headington
. Eight years old, non-matching front forks, declining battery, dependable.
7 months ago
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This to me looks like an angry chick tossing away a worm, but in fact it is part of the valley bottom at Cuckmere Haven in Sussex.
#aerials
#dronephotography
#cuckmerehaven
#sussex
#lookingdown
#britainfromabove
#coast
#djimini3pro
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Oxford Clarion
7 months ago
Becky Carlyle, Headington Liveable Streets: âThe filters are key to reducing through traffic in Headington, Marston and Lye Valley and protecting bus services. However, once filters are active, Headington needs additional measures: extra bus services, a private school shuttle bus, parking controls.â
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Oxford Clarion
7 months ago
A legal challenge to Oxfordâs Low Traffic Neighbourhoods has been withdrawn after advice concluded it would âlikely failâ. Full report â in which we ask whoâs funding opposition to the Oxford traffic measures:
oxfordclarion.uk/legal-challe...
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Legal challenge to Oxfordâs LTNs withdrawn
A crowdfunded legal challenge to the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in East Oxford and Cowley has been withdrawn after Kingâs Counsel advised it would âlikely failâ. The crowdfunder was launched by Recon...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/legal-challenge-to-oxfords-ltns-withdrawn/
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Some unusual visitors to St Andrew's Road in
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7 months ago
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John Harris
7 months ago
Latest Maybe I'm Amazed Substack from me: on neurodiversity, creativity, genius & Brian Wilson. It's free, as are subscriptions
maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/neurodiver...
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Neurodiversity, creativity and genius: on Brian Wilson
He was hyper-sensitised to sound and able to write modern symphonies; he also found social etiquette and self-promotion impossible. Many people will recognise that cognitive style
https://maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/neurodiversity-creativity-and-genius
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A choke of grief ... RiP, BW
7 months ago
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Oxford Clarion
7 months ago
What are people saying about Oxfordâs proposed congestion charge? đŹ âIf nothing is done the city will grind to a haltâ đŹ âThere are so many exemptions it wonât make a differenceâ đŹ âThe gentlest congestion charge ever conceivedâ Full reaction and commentary:
oxfordclarion.uk/oxfords-prop...
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Oxfordâs proposed congestion charge â the reaction
Mondayâs announcement of a temporary congestion charge for Oxford passed almost without notice as city residents staged a collective shrug. Just kidding. The proposals for an interim fix to Oxfordâs ...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/oxfords-proposed-congestion-charge-the-reaction/
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Cllr Emily Kerr đ
7 months ago
Oxford Labour coming out against the Congestion Charge & offering no policy alternatives, saying people want "less congestion" and "to be listened to." So like the recent Labour-sponsored Citizens Assembly which voted 74% in favour of a congestion charge?!?
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Citizensâ Assembly votes for âa car-free city centreâ
An assembly of Oxfordshire citizens has overwhelmingly supported making the city centre car-free and turning some existing roads over to buses, cyclists and Blue Badge holders. Together with housing ...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-assembly-votes-for-a-car-free-city-centre/
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