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Welcome
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oxfordshire
Win one of
3 weekend pairs
to
this year’s freshest festival
cour tesy of Pick South.
Pick South Oxfordshire is delighted to be able to offer a pair of tickets to one of our lucky readers. If you would like to attend this
amazing event simply send an email to
labelled Homegrown Please and we’ll send a pair to three lucky twosome
who can tell us the date of this year’s amazing event. Good luck and the winner will be notified by email by 31st July.
July and August are probably the most
optimistic months of the year. The promise of
good weather, festivals, holidays and BBQs lifts
the spirits and fills most of us with optimism.
This year, there is plenty to look forward to.
The geeks amongst us will be excited about the
New Horizons spacecraft reaching the end of
its 80 year mission to orbit Neptune. We will
also get the chance to re-live a bit of Olympic
fever when the Commonwealth Games come
to Glasgow. Not to mention the great festivals
and local events going on in the summer sun.
It seems as though there isn’t a cloud to spoil
the view. The floods are gone, the economy is
slowly improving, things are on the up.
Jump back 100 years and you would find there
was a similar feel in the air. It was 1914 and
the first ever colour film (although still with
no sound) had amazed audiences in London.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw was the
must see play. King George V was the first
Monarch ever to attend an FA Cup match. And
in Bristol, the International Exhibition was
built to show off how bright the future was
for Britain.
On 28th June, few people reading about the
shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would
have considered it anything other than a
‘trouble in another land’. Within a month, we
were at war. By the end of the year, thousands
of men were dead on a battlefield in Western
Europe. Yet their summer had started with
exactly the same optimism as ours.
So in this issue, it felt right to include a section
all about the military and to look at the local
names and organisations that were involved
in the Great War. We also take a look at some
contemporary organisations that work with the
military and their families today. And looking
forward to a good summer, we’ve also got
details of some great festivals and events for
you to look forward to in South Oxfordshire
and beyond.
Let’s hope for a bright and sunny 2014!
We couldn’t let this issue going to press without
wishing an oddly fond farewell to Didcot Power
Station, which will begin the demolition process
on Sunday 27th July. How we are going to find
our way home now we don’t know!
