Longworth Rose Volume One
The Longworth Rose, first published in 1998, is the journal of Longworth and District History Society which serves the villages of Longworth, Hinton Waldrist and Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor.
It is a regular 12-page magazine (Jan / May / Sept), filled with items of local historical interest and is intended to become a place of safe keeping for interesting items of written and visual information about our district.
The well-illustrated journal includes historical records, memories of those who have lived in the area for some time and also accounts of everyday life both in the past and today.
A good place to see what information the Longworth Rose contains is to browse the INDEX which is a comprehensive list of all the items which have ever appeared in the magazine.
Some 300 entries are listed, subdivided with useful subheads, for example; farming, buildings, maps, people’s names, wartime, crafts and industries. Each entry title indicates the Longworth Rose issue and page number. To view the six-page INDEX or download and print the same, see menu on left under Download section.
ALL earlier issues of the Longworth Rose are kept in print. You can purchase any back numbers of interest either at any history society hall meeting (50p per issue) or alternatively you can buy direct on-line (see below) again at 50p per issue, plus a handling charge of £1.50 which covers free postage for an order of whatever size.
The first 24 issues (1998-2005) make up Volume One, with page numbering consecutive from the first issue. The Longworth Rose Volume 1, has been published by the society as a book (ISBN 978-0-948444-45-6). It is available in two bindings:
The Longworth Rose Volume I
1998-2005 Peter Keene (editor)
ISBN 978-0-948444-45-6. Available in two bindings
- (a) A thick flexible paper cover with a plastic comb binding £12.00
- (b) A ‘library edition’ with a stiff buckram binding and embossed spine £25.00
An annual postal subscription to the Longworth Rose (three issues) costs £1.50 plus £1.50 postage - total £3.00.
The most recent issue of the Longworth Rose is stocked at both The Log Cabin Newsagent (Southmoor) and Kingston Bagpuize Post Office (ask at the counter) 50p each.
List of all issues of the Longworth Rose to date:
Longworth Rose Volume One- Vol. 1 (1) Jan 1998 pages 1-12 Hop farming in Southmoor
- Vol. 1 (2) May 1998 pages 13-24 Rose growing in Longworth
- Vol. 1 (3) Sep 1998 pages 25-36 Kingston and Longworth Lace
- Vol. 1 (4) Jan 1999 pages 37-48 The Story of Longworth School
- Vol. 1 (5) May 1999 pages 49-60 Kingston and Southmoor in 1965
- Vol. 1 (6) Sep 1999 pages 61-72 Walking to Newbridge
- Vol. 1 (7) Jan 2000 pages 73-84 Growing up in Longworth
- Vol. 1 (8) May 2000 pages 85-96 Miles Drew remembers
- Vol. 1 (9) Sep 2000 pages 97-108 The Villages in World War Two
- Vol. 1 (10) Jan 2001 pages 109-120 Local village childhoods
- Vol. 1 (11) May 2001 pages 121-132 The year of 1853
- Vol. 1 (12) Sep 2001 pages 133-144 Working horses on our farms
- Vol. 1 (13) Jan 2002 pages 145-156 Starting work in the mid 20th century
- Vol. 1 (14) May 2002 pages 157-168 Scouting for boys
- Vol. 1 (15) Sep 2002 pages 169-180 Changing face of Kingston Bagpuize
- Vol. 1 (16) Jan 2003 pages 181-192 The Blandy murder and village ghosts
- Vol. 1 (17) May 2003 pages 193-204 Three Oxfordshire village celebrations
- Vol. 1 (18) Sep 2003 pages 205-216 A fatal quarrel at Longworth
- Vol. 1 (19) Jan 2004 pages 217-228 Hops – the end of an era
- Vol. 1 (20) May 2004 pages 229-240 Hinton Waldrist
- Vol. 1 (21) Sep 2004 pages 241-252 Battle of Radcot Bridge - a bridge too far
- Vol. 1 (22) Jan 2005 pages 253-264 Local Trades, Crafts and Services
- Vol. 1 (23) May 2005 pages 265-276 Rise and Ruin of Kingston's Last Squire
- Vol. 1 (24) Sept 2005 pages 277-288 Farms & Farming;
Index pages 289-292. The index to Volume One is an integral part of No 24.
Continue to Longworth Rose, Volume Two