Publications for Sale
To order copies of titles shown below, please email: norma.aubertin-potter@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Prices do not include postage & packing. Cheques to be made payable to Kidlington & District Historical Society.
For out of print books please scroll to end of page.
Our latest publications
Memories of National Service by Bilham Woods - One man's account of his two years of National Service with the Royal Engineers in the 1950's, including service in Kenya during the Mau Mau emergency. A vivid description of an experience most young men underwent until the end of the 1950's.
Priced at £9 per copy.
Celebrating 800 years of history and community life - A souvenir booklet has been published as part of the celebrations for the 800th birthdays of St Mary’s Kidlington and St Mary’s Hampton Poyle.
‘Kidlington and Hampton Poyle 800 – Celebrating 800 years of history and community life’ is available, price £5.00, from the Parish Office, St John’s Church, Broadway, Kidlington OX5 1DD; and from several shops in Kidlington including Alison’s Animals, Hair Affair and DrunkDry Microbar. Copies can also be ordered from https://kidhp800.org/souvenir-booklet/. Proceeds from sales will go towards the Kidlington and Hampton Poyle 800 building projects fund.
Kidlington and Hampton Poyle 800
£5
The Shipton-on-Cherwell Railway Disaster of 1874
Compiled by John Amor - £3
A History of Church Street Kidlington
Revised by John Amor £2.50
Memories of Kidlington
Volume 5
Compiled by John Amor – £3.00
Memories of Kidlington
Volume 3
Complied by John Amor -£3.00
Sorry, No Bananas - Children's Memories of WWII
by John Amor – £5.00
Kidlington and The Civil War
by John Amor £3.00
Gosford Hill & Oxford Zoo
by John Amor – £3.00
Kidlington Village - its story so far
By John Amor - £10
Kidlington Parish Award 1818
Foreword by Valerie Offord - £5 this includes map
A History of Oxford Road Kidlington
by John Amor – £3.00
A History of The Schools of Kidlington
by Reg Martin- £3.50
Memories of Kidlington
Volume 2
Compiled by John Amor £3.00
Kidlington's Sacrifice in the Great War
By John Lowe - £10
A History of Banbury Road, Kidlington
by John Amor – £2.50
Thirty Nine years in an Oxfordshire Parish
edited by John Amor- £2.50
Hales Croft, Kidlington
By Professor Michael Seymour – £4.00
A History of Lyne Road and The Rookery
by Norma Aubertin-Potter -£5
Memories of National Service
Bilham Woods - £9
Kidlington Evacuees
Complied by John Amor – £2.50
The Probate Documents of Water Eaton
1592-1730
edited by Valerie Offord – £2.50
Memories of Kidlington
Volume 1
Compiled by John Amor £3.00
Kidlington In Camera 2
by John Amor £2
A History of Mill Street, Kidlington
Revised edition by John Amor £3.00
A History of St Mary's Church, Kidlington
By John Amor - £5
The Roads of Kidlington & Gosford
By John Amor - £3
A History of Crown Road and Moat Cottage
By Norma Aubertin-Potter – £5.00