Four Shires issues 2002

• JAN 02-Iss.52 Northamptonshire with Diane Parkin, Sid Tyrell’s Eydon, Oxfordshire Carers Blenheim Dinner dance, Bix Valley Walk, Montague Crowther feature, Herbal Remedies, Banbury Cross history, Pintos of the 1960’s

• FEB 02-Iss.53 Wytham Woods walk, Grimsbury Manor opening, HMS Heythrop feature,The Stile Company - Epwell, Focus on Horton Hospital, Thatching feature

• MAR02-Iss.54 Waterways talk with Carol Downs, Point to Point history of Fred Hutsby and Golden Jubilee, Deddington Market, Old beer bottles in Oxon, New album from Fairport

• APR 02-Iss.55 Seventy five years of the National Garden Scheme, Blue Plaque for local journalist and philanthropist, Thames journey with Carol Downs, 36th Churchill concert at Blenheim Palace, Cheltenham review with Steve Smith, Walk around the famous white horse valley, memories of Aynho with Dawn Griffis

• MAY 02-Iss.56 Oxford Bus Museum, Queens golden sword, Heythrop point to point, fashion at Bloxham museum, Sources and Courses with Carol Downs, Memories of the Queen Mother, Morgan cars, Brailes Walk, Fawsley Hall, South Oxon steam day

• JUNE 02-Iss.57 Banbury’s Blue Plaques, Farmers Bloodhounds Ball, Turville’s cinematic legacy Ferries, Fords and Floods, USAF serviceman Mike Griffiths, Claydon to Cropredy walk

• JULY 02-Iss.58 St Mary’s Gala night, Hartwell House, Golden Jubilee at Culworth Pub, The River Cherwell, Blenheim Palace Flower Show, Wittenham Clumps to Day’s Lock walk, Grafton Hunt Summer Ball, Wappenham memories with Joan Archer

• AUG 02-Iss.59 Reeds and the River Ray, Room 4 launch party, Craft potter Elizabeth Monk,Cotswold Wildlife Park, Views from west Oxfordshire, Henley on Thames, The Ridgeway Walk, ‘Fantastic’ book review, Motoring memories from Eric Bates

• SEPT 02-Iss.60 Local visit from the Queen, Warwick Castle, Service for the ‘Forgotten Army’, Addington Fund party at Eydon, Nature notes in Moscow, The River Swere and Sor Brook, Ponds, Pools and Pomegranates, Austin 10 Owners club, History of Mollington, Marlow Thames Walk

• OCT 02-Iss.61 Waterperry gardens, Warwickshire windmills, Chacombe memories with James Alcock, Overthorpe Manor Artweeks, At home with Paul Webber and Kim Bailey, Thame and its river, British life in India, Poems by Mrs Hanmer, Swinbrook to Widford Walk

• NOV 02-Iss.62 George Randerson’s Garden, Ling’s wood trees, Banbury to Oxford train journeys in 1943, Barton to Bidford on Severn Walk, Amsel and Wilkins review, Standlake museum egg collection, Sly Fox story by Lis Cockerell, Liberty And Livelihood march

• DEC 02-Iss.63 Batsford Arboretum, Willow trees, Bicester Business night, Cropredy’s boundary Stone, History of Banbury cattle market, Christmas dilemmas with Liz Cockrell, Blisworth tunnel, Northamptonshire