Illustrations  

1.  Creampot Lane

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2.  Garden in front of Old Yard Cottages.

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3.  Wm.A.Shirley and E.Shirley.

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4.  Christina and Christina Shirley.

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5.  Colin and Christina Shirley.

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6.  Shirley’s Workshop and Wash House.

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7.  Golby’s and Shirleys.

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8.  Mrs H. Shirley at 1 Old Yard.

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9.  Mr Wm. Hawkes outside 2 Old Yard.

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10.1907 School Photograph.

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11. Colin Shirley

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12. Colin’s model wagon made for Clifford Lambert.

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13. The Co-op farm wagon at Cropredy Lawn Farm.

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14. Craftsmen who built the Chapel Green Houses.

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15. Colin with his telescope.

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16. Colin in his St. John’s Ambulance uniform.

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17. From Old Yard to Monkeytree House pigsties.

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18. Helen Shirley.

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19. Colin Shirley.

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20. Mrs C. Taylor and her son John A. Taylor.

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21. A model of a cart.

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22. Wagon for Clifford Lambert.

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23. Taylors and Shirleys. August 1958.

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24. John A. Taylor outside 2 Chapel Row in 1936.

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25. John Shirley by R.W.Cross’s wagon.

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26. Donald Cherry in High Street.

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Figures:

 

1.  The Hollies once Old Yard.

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2.  Colin’s Plan of Old Yard gardens.

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3.  Colin’s Plan of 1Old Yard.

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3a Colin’s little brass bell.

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4.  Colin’s Plan of Cropredy and Bourton School.

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5.  Tooth extractor.

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6.  Rules of Mary Smith’s Library.

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7 & 8. John’s Plan of Old Yard in the 1940’s and 1950’s.

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9.  John’s Plan of Cropredy

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10.Tins Only.

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11. Hair cutting clippers.

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12. Village houses mentioned in Colin’s Letters.

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