Kennington History Society

By the time you read this our new ‘Society’ will be six months old and

following the very entertaining talk in June by Russell Cherry about the

History of the River Thames from it’s Source to Abingdon, the group is

taking a summer break from the regular programme of invited speakers.

This break allows a progress report on the committee’s future plans for ,

the ‘Society’ related both to speaker’s subjects and/or trips for 2004 and

about the research being undertaken for additional publications.

Subjects under consideration include the history of :- Radley College,

Iffley Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Kennington’s Street Names,

Water Mills on the Thames, Shopping in 19th Century Oxford, The

Oxford Canal, ‘Paper House’ at Redbridge & Transport in the Vale.

As far as future Society publications are concerned, research is

continuing for two projects - *‘The Story of Kennington’s 18 War Dead’

the known background of those brave young men named on the village

war memorial and also Shirley Jones booklet entitled ‘Evacuees in

Kennington’.

*With regard to the first of these can I again appeal to anyone with

‘background knowledge’ of Kennington’s War Dead to contact me.

The first planned event, after the summer recess, will be talk entitled -

A Beginners Guide to Researching your Family History to be held on

Monday the 15th September 2003 at 7:45pm in the Methodist Church.

George Ross

Chairman Kennington History Society