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OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER- saturday 120703

dunk | 06.07.2003 14:11 | Culture | Ecology | Indymedia | Oxford

Everyone is welcome to join on this OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER, meet
menzil gardens @ 4.00 next Saturday.

We might stop in the half moon for a quick pint to quench the
thirst, after the first little leg of the wander, and im sure we will have a few more later

Hopefully the sun will be as plentiful as it was a few weeks ago
Tell everyone, get your friends and your grannies to come, get them to announce it in the bingo hall

Lets socialize more

dunk

OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER
OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER


1- Menzil gardens, graffiti wall, play area, benches
2- cowley road, diversity “you can walk the whole road and
not hear English being spoken” the "welcome wall" c/o the rap yard
3- the peace plain,(roundabout) vigil was held here for peace, during
recent war on Iraq, site of old graveyard
4- the half moon, a Clare pub, great ceoil (music) in here
5- the river cherwell, punting on the river, may day stuff,
6- angel meadows, a public park entrances from saint
Clements road
7- the private grounds along the river, cant get to where
the rivers meet, the public should be able to get here
8- botanic gardens, lovely but an entry fee, heard rumour
that oxford residents can get in free?
9- Public walking area of the university, nice spot, so to
is university parks, up the cherwell, not everyone knows of the parks
10- River themes, or Isis river as the call it in oxford,
why?
11- River walk alongside nice old housing
12- The canal, pleasant public walkway there to be followed
13- public Park @ ice rink
14- Old boat works, canal locks, interesting area
15- Allotments, many people grow their own vegetables in oxford
16- People live on the boats
17- Port meadow, occasional parties happen here, finish up
in the old circle

so come along, meet and socialize with some more oxford people, learn things about the place you never knew before,
be amazed

dunk
- e-mail: 02092997@brookes.ac.uk
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/fuspey/

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how SOCIAL is oxford?

06.07.2003 14:44


this debate continues at

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add your views, invite more people to contribute

dunk


apologies

06.07.2003 18:27

Sorry for the date confusion everybody, this was partly my fault.

The FINAL word is that it's Sat 12th July! :)

mcbob


wander summary

14.07.2003 13:58

the wander happened
it was not as successful as hoped.

it was publicised on the daily info, emails were sent out, and the -oxford social forum-people were notified about it in the hope that we could meet each other and progress the -oxford social forum- idea

8 of us met up and started out from manzil gardens
3 left at head of the river

we made it to port meadow about 7.30? and went on to an eco art concept party with live music, great food and lovley people

you get into the botanic gardens for free if you have proof that you live in oxford

we had a lovely time anyway

im not sure where the -oxford social forum- is going?

dunk


wander summary

14.07.2003 13:58

the wander happened
it was not as successful as hoped.

it was publicised on the daily info, emails were sent out, and the -oxford social forum-people were notified about it in the hope that we could meet each other and progress the -oxford social forum- idea

8 of us met up and started out from manzil gardens
3 left at head of the river

we made it to port meadow about 7.30? and went on to an eco art concept party with live music, great food and lovley people

you get into the botanic gardens for free if you have proof that you live in oxford

we had a lovely time anyway

im not sure where the -oxford social forum- is going?

dunk


Getting to where the rivers meet

14.07.2003 16:29

You say "the private grounds along the river, cant get to where
the rivers meet, the public should be able to get here".

You CAN get to where the rivers meet! Either

A)Via Rose Lane and Christchurch Meadow to where the New Cut of the Cherwell meets the Thames (not "themes"), and then crossing the New Cut by the bridge, past the boathouses to where the original Cherwell meets the Thames (north bank of Cherwell),
or otherwise
B) Via Jackdaw Lane or Bedford Street etc to where the original Cherwell meets the Thames (south bank of Cherwell)
or even
C) Along the Thames Towpath from Folly or Donnington Bridge(west side of Thames, see Cherwell from opppsite bank of Thames)
or best of all
D) by punt or other boat.

What you call "private grounds" are a school for young boys and then St Hilda's college. The college is often open to the public, like other colleges. Neither the school nor the college have access to where the rivers meet except by the methods I have described.

Roger Moreton
mail e-mail: rogerox@yahoo.co.uk


The "Canal" , and the Isis

14.07.2003 16:49

What you call the canal is not the canal at all, it's a branch of the River Thames.
From Hythe Bridge this branch of the Thames runs parallel to the canal, as far as Walton Well Road, as you must surely have noticed. But the canal, coming south from the Midlands, now finishes abruptly at Hythe Bridge. It never went further than what is now the car park of Nuffield College.

When the Empress Matilda famously escaped from Oxford Castle across the frozen Thames camouflaged in a white cloak, this is the bit of Thames she crossed. There were no canals built for many more centuries !

Who are you?

You ask about Isis. People probably liked the romantic connection with Ancient Egypt, but the best theory of the original error is that the Latin for Thames is Thamisis (or it could be spelt that way on old maps). There is a river called the Thame. If the river below where the Thame comes in is called THAMEISIS, there is a sort of logic to thinking that the two rivers above are called Thame and Isis (like Missisipi-Missouri). But to reserve that name for a short stretch at Oxford perhaps best suggests a Donnish joke based on that possibility. The Isis should, if all this were really true, stretch all the way from the source to Dorchester!

Roger Moreton
mail e-mail: rogerox@yahoo.co.uk


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