OXFORDSHIRE IRONSTONE COMPANY QUARRIES REMEMBERED   It is now hard to envisage that the pleasant rolling countryside of north Oxfordshire was once host to opencast quarrying of ironstone for iron and steel production on a grand scale. The excavation of ironstone started around Wroxton near Banbury in 1919 with economic pressures finally forcing closure in…

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM On 17th October 1943 in the jungles of Thailand the surviving allied prisoners of war issued a collective sigh of relief  as their years work on the Burma – Siam railway  came to a conclusion – the railway was complete. As the Japanese prepared to celebrate this remarkable engineering achievement this…