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I believe these wooden bridges all get their names from the undergraduates and masters who used to walk and ramble along to North and South Hinksey. Lewis, Tolkien, Carol, Oscar Wilde etc. Some of these were involved in a program to improve relations with 'town' people by helping with harvests and building small roads and pathways for locals. These wooden bridges were installed in the mid-90s, replacing older ones which were even more dangerous and deathly. I think the Dip of happiness relates to an area where there two meadows open up creating the almost cross-roads like arrangement with the trail - Workers would gather there and rest for lunch and ale supplied by the local pubs on hot harvest days.

13:27 - To the right of here is where a young man accidentally walked in to the river whilst walking home from a night out in Oxford. He lived with his family on North Hinksey Lane. Was the old bridge back then, was very narrow (also green). Think of him every time I walk by. RIP

Is there anything more quintessentially English than the pealing of church bells through the changes? I’m not sure how many sets of ‘working’ bells there are in Oxford, but the largest is Christ Church (it would be) with 12.

The KDF9 was 48-bit mainframe computer built by English Electric (later ICL*). The KDF9 was designed primarily for mathematical and scientific computing. It’s sister KDF8 was designed for commercial computing. *When ICL still existed, those in the industry half-jokingly said that stood for ‘It’s Coming Later’ and that IBM stood for ‘It’s Being Mended’.

St Hugh’s & Lady Margaret Hall? St Benet’s Hall was the last all-male to accept women.

Ah yes - Dead Week - I can completely comprehend that !!!!! After retiring from Oxford University, my wife and I moved away to another country, but I continued to order my essential books from Blackwell`s as I have done for over fifty years. Even so, my final order for the year passing was placed in early December, with the first of the New Year orders being placed January 14th - not much point between those dates :) Thank you once again - appreciated !!!!

Hello,, and thank you, for braving what I know can be quite chilly weather in January. The other female only colleges ( at the time ) that you missed was Lady Margaret Hall and Hartford College. I had only just started my time as an undergrad ( mid 1960`s ) when Oxford University began the at times highly contentious issue of making all colleges bi-gender or co-educational. I seem to recall it was a process that required nearly twenty eight years to be fully implemented. Thanks again, brought memories of some forty years of academic life, and the traveling to and from thereof quite back in focus - we had a flat in North Oxford :)

Lovely video thanks. Will look out for more I don’t really explore Botley enough!

It's always sad when history goes under a JCB.

Any idea what the road works all along the Woodstock road are for as they have taken months. Why have they been happening. It makes parking by the Chemist hard. I started using it as a chemist when it was open till 10pm and I am still with them despite them moving to new management and installing their stupid telephone system

The Standard has been there for _decades_

15:34 As I recall, what used to be there was old folks’ accommodation or a home. It’s been more than 25 years since it was replaced. Taking to some of the people who bought one of the new properties, the standard of build showed a certain focus on cheap materials and units.

Your tour of Park Town (3:23ff) brought back happy memories of visiting Number 24 in the late 1950s and again in the 1970s, then the home of Dr. Hermann (Hugh) Blaschko, who was a professor and researcher in the University Pharmacology Department. A Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Blaschko came to Oxford in 1944 and remained there until his death in 1993. His wife, Mary, taught English just around the corner at the Dragon School. My wife, Mabel, worked as a lab tech for Blaschko from 1952 to 1954, and we stayed in touch with the couple for many years. Park Town was always considered to be "posh" and I see that the current estimated price for Number 24 is 2,364,000 pounds. No wonder they tell non-residents to stay out of their mini park within a Park Town!

Oxford is blighted by the traffic that parks in the centre or drives through it, and the signs telling drivers how to do either.

Havoc with buses today, Orkey Island bus stop.

Dead Week, aka ‘Twixtmas’.

Glad Al Shami restaurant is still exist) used to be my favourite while living in Oxford.

That would me my video request.

Fascinating video, thank you. I lived with my family at number 58, from 1958-59. I can't say I remember too much about it, as I was a baby at the time. In fact my first memory is the removal van arriving on the day we moved out.

When we still had thick fogs on a regular basis, I loved the centre of Oxford at about 3 am mid-week. No people, no traffic.

Used to enjoy getting big slap up breakfasts at the St Giles Cafe, sad to see that it's closed.

I just go with ‘golden hour’ and ‘blue hour’, for practical purposes.

Britt Allcroft the creator of Thomas & Friends has sadly passed away at the age of 81 on 27th December 2024.

24:40 Oxford High Street has been called ‘the most beautiful high street in the World’. Highly debatable, and for me, it’s blighted by far too much signage and traffic - especially the buses.

9:00 We have similar in Austria, called Schwedenbomben. A bit sweet and sickly for my taste, but not as fancy as the German equivalent-looking item. The structure looks identical. Austria also has a tradition of a variety all-butter Xmas cookies. Almost always handmade, even if bought in a supermarket. I’m a sucker for those not coated or dipped in chocolate. One particular variety of festive cookie that I loath, however, is ‘Lebkuchen’ - gingerbread with Lebkuchen spice (originally, ground and baked deer antler (Hirschhornsalz)). These days, they just use E503, or ammonium carbonate. It’s like eating gingerbread mildly laced with smelling salts, of which ammonium carbonate is a constituent.

One day, there will be no scaffolding in the centre of Oxford. One day, soon perhaps?

Oxford's my favourite city so appreciate all your videos. Keep them coming!

It was just nearby but I never saw it)) Glad to find out after 25 years😀

😀 So nice to have a walking with you, first, from the lovely Shark. I used to wake up to it every morning while studying at Oxford Brookes. You can imagine how happy I was to walk along to it once again after 25 years! There are new caffe added in New High Street as I could have noticed. This walking was enjoyable to watch on the first day of 2025. Even that it was made 5 months ago. Thank you for brining up good memories.

Happy NewYear 2025🎄

What a hideous,cold,dull,characterless place imo.Nothing like the light and welcoming Westgate I grew up with.

Westgate will always be my 1st favourite place ever!

25:45 That strange “I don’t know what they are” is a deep sea platform escape pod / lifeboat. They have a shelf life, as do the platforms themselves and they tend to get recycled into the public domain, being made from composite materials, so difficult to recycle. I feel we’ll see more of them over time. Whether they will all remain DayGlo orange remains to be seen.

9:37 “Boathouse on the right” is Merton & Worcester Boat House. That to the left is New College & St Antony’s. To the right is Magdalen College and finally, Christ Church Boathouse, the last two colleges being so rolling in cash that they can afford their own boathouses.

Fun fact about me is that I’m from the United Kingdom.

when I was a student Lived on Chiswell street and Weirs lane -had friends on Canning Crescent - it was ironically - a better part of that area -They have said the bridge is week - and -only certain weights can go over it - recently - Probably another reason to close all the roads in Oxford lol

2:13 I can’t fully recall what was on the site of the new residential property, but it could have been fairly old terraced property. The retail park is the John Allen Centre Retail Park. Prior to that, it was the site of Grove Cranes. Before then it was owned by John Allen & Sons, which was earlier called the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company. If you go back to the preserved remnant gable end of the original building on the corner, which you walked past, I believe it commemorates the Steam Ploughing Company (but, as always, don’t quote me on that).

Merry Christmas - Maybe the Dinosaur-from recolonisation had something to do with the Cowley rd

Nice video thank you =watching late =getting some good videos up almost per day well done

Merry Christmas and waiting to hear from you in Headington. The Shark was opposite my window when renting a flat there while studding in Oxford. Good memories you are bringing by walking along lively Oxford

Merry Christmas!

I’m posting a new video on my channel tomorrow.

Thank you Nice video Once again

They are very definitely oil / deep sea platform escape pods. Quite a few are now in private hands and have been converted for all kinds of water-born activities.

So that’s what the other side of Botley road looks like, did not see that one coming. I just have no idea when that road is going to open.

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