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Hook Norton Local History Group Monthly meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month from September until May at the Brewery Visitor Centre at 7.30pm. Membership costs £10 for an individual and £19 for 2 people living at the same address. Non members are more than welcome at just £2 per meeting. 6th October - Mike Boyes - A Victorian Rector and Nine Old Maids 3rd November - Liz Woolley - Child Labour in Oxfordshire 1st December - Tim Jordan - Cotswold Stone Barns 5th January - Martin Quartermain - Hook Norton and its Railway 2nd February - Donald Ratcliffe - Failing on the Frontier 2nd March - Tim Porter - Cotswold Churches in the Landscape 6th April - Bill King - River Thames at War 4th May - AGM In addition the group has several publications which are available for sale. These are: Somewhere Along the Line - The Story of the Banbury to Cheltenham Railway - £3.50 Hook Norton Village Trail - A walk round the village - £2 Hook Norton Footpaths - 4 Walks around the village, originally published in the 1980s and revised in 2003 - £2 Hook Norton 2000AD - A hardback photographic record of the village over the Millennium - £2 Postage and packing is £1 per book with the exception of Hook Norton 2000AD which costs £2. In 1928 Margaret Dickins, the then organist of St Peter's, wrote a book entitled History of Hook Norton. This has been reprinted by the Group and copies are now available for sale. A more comprehensive index of names which will be of use to family historians is also included in the reprint. The cost of this publication is £9 plus £3 P&P. Please make cheques payable to Hook Norton Local History Group and send with your order to the Secretary, David McGill, Sunnybank Farmhouse, Scotland End, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5NR. If ordering from outside the UK please contact David to ascertain postage and packing costs. His email address is
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and telephone number is (+44) 1608 737103.
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