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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 16:55 GMT (UK) »
Dunno anything about the choir school, I'm afraid.  Why not try a phone call?

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 17:52 GMT (UK) »
Hiya Maggott

found a site..and.....

apparently due to Ring Worm at The College , the authories ordered everything that could be burned had to be burned....so the records do not exist now  :(


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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 19:04 GMT (UK) »
Hi Debz  Ringworm!!! you couldn't make it up :)

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 19:45 GMT (UK) »
Ringworm indeed!

You'd think College Archivists would know all about preserving valuable documents.


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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 24 January 08 15:55 GMT (UK) »
Indeed you would  :o 1890 apparently ! my great grandfather started about 1875 !!

and one wonders if they burned ALL the library books and the hymn books  as well ..... ::)


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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 26 January 08 06:41 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Maggott, Christopher, David and Dj. Great discussion!

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there is a Joseph preston ..at Worcester College  early 1850's .he lived in Worcester Place.

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There was a Joseph Preston in New College living in Holywell

Dj

Dj, where did this information come from? I have an idea that I read somewhere that he (Joseph) was a 'common room man' at Worcester college. What would this position have entailed?

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apparently due to Ring Worm at The College , the authories ordered everything that could be burned had to be burned....so the records do not exist now 

Is this true of all the colleges? Or just some?

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 26 January 08 07:28 GMT (UK) »
Click to see a photo of the smartly dressed Porters at York University in the 1960s. Now have a look at a picture of a porter's lodge at a University.

Aillin,

Some Universities in the UK had three Common Rooms ... Junior, Middle and Senior. Generally JCRs are associations of undergraduates and SCRs are an association of tutors and academics associated with a college. Postgraduates are sometimes given their own MCR, or placed in with either of the other groups. Source: Wikipedia.

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 27 January 08 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the links to the photos, and the information about the common rooms!
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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #17 on: Monday 28 January 08 07:24 GMT (UK) »
hi Aillin
 i also found a RICHARD PRESTON who was a tailor in Gloucester Green ( used to be the bus Station.)

There were hundreds of Tailors for all the gowns and repairs needed but only a percentage had outlets , the rest were all "sub contracted out"

but it is very central to Oxford of course in about the 18th c Oxford was just 1 square mile around Carfax.


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