Oxford Canal Heritage Open Day

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Oxford Canal Heritage

Open Day

Saturday 3 May

11.30am – 5pm

Old Fire Station,

George St Oxford

 

PROGRAMME

 

11.00am Canal Day refreshments at the Old Fire Station

 

11.30am Welcome to the Oxford Canal Heritage Day

Deputy Mayor of Oxford, Jericho Living Heritage Trust and Canal and River Trust representatives open the day’s programme.

 

12.00pm Celebrating Oxford’s Canal

The project’s work and new resources including information available from the new Oxford Canal Heritage website, Maria Parsons, Project Manager.

 

12.20pm Memories of the Oxford Canal

Film: Jack and Rose Skinner talking about their lives on the working boats & an interview with Colin Dick, Oxford Canal painter.

 

1.30pm Performing the Oxford Canal

Led by creative facilitators Charlie Henry and Kate Saffin, children from Wolvercote, St Barnabas, Cutteslowe and Phil and Jim schools show how they have interpreted the canal

 

2.30pm Canal Characters: an illustrated insight into some of the individuals who were instrumental to creation and success of the Oxford Canal.

Local historians and authors Mark Davies and Hugh Compton reflect on the fascinating story of the canal’s construction and development.

 

4.00pm Inspired by the Canal

Sir Christopher Ball and Katherine Shock present canal poetry and painting, Wilf Rouse (14) muses about growing up on a boat, Kate Saffin showcases her one woman show,’ Ramblin’ Rose’ about Rose Skinner, Catherine Robinson talks about saving the Trap Grounds and canal wildlife, Charlie Bell get the audience involved in canal poetry whilst Benji Fry, a boater asks us to gather round for a Ghost Story about the canal.

 

5.00pm End of Day’s Programme

 

11am – 4pm

Stalls and books, exhibition of prize winners & entrants to the Oxford Canal Art competition, children’s boat making activities and canal quiz prize draw.

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8pm-10.30 pm Oxford Canal Celebration Concert of music, poetry and song. Bar and raffle. Tickets £8 (£5 concessions) from www.ticketsoxford.com

 

For further details go to www.oxfordcanalheritage.org

 

 

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Am I right in saying that when this partnership was formed, the restoration of a canal terminus in Oxford was highlighted as a key action but to date, nothing has happened?

Perhaps we could encourage a favourable announcement on the terminus basin for 225th anniversary of the Oxfrod Canal opening next year.

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You are correct

 

I believe that they had some Geophysics done and some ground penetrating radar on the car park (which now occupies the basin site)

 

The result was that most of the wharf walls and the structure of the basin is still intact but buried

 

How much support there is (financial and political) to get the basin back is probably very small