Adderbury Cine Club will be showing The Ballad of Wallis Island in the Institute. This is a Meals and Reels evening. Doors open at 6.45 pm. The meal starts at 7.00 pm and the film starts at 8.15 pm. The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together.
The Quaker Meeting House is not normally open to the public but it is part of the Ride and Stride event and will be open between 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm. It is an exceptional building dating from 1675 and is the third oldest in the country by only months. If you’ve ever wondered about this building, this is a chance to view inside and hear something of its history.
Dr Barrie Trinder will give a talk in the Institute, starting at 7.30 pm on The Village Carrier. Dr Trinder is a local historian and author of many books about Banbury and will explore the carrier’s crucial role in Adderbury in days gone by. Long before the railways, the village carrier was the only way ordinary villagers could send or receive goods from the outside world—via Banbury. Visitors welcome at £5.00.
The June meeting of Adderbury History Association proved very popular as we listened to reminiscences of life in the village from those who were brought up here. There was a chance to find out about the shops and pubs which have disappeared, the traces of the Banbury – Cheltenham railway line, the coming of the M40 in the 1980s and how Church House, now a welcoming library, was once a damp and chilly school room.
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