On Friday 7th September I held a drop-in at Banbury Museum and invited local residents to come and tell me their memories of the canal before the wharves became a shopping centre and the boats full of holidaymakers.
I had about 10 participants and at one point they were queuing up to be filmed, talking about their memories. It was fascinating to hear about what Banbury was like in the 1930s and 40s, and how as children they had seen the boats and boating community.
Ivy Fuller is pictured here with her brother Cecil who brought in the label from a flour packet for flour produced in the Mill, now an arts centre. Ivy and others remembered the confectioner Rocky Peake who used to hang long strips of striped candy up to dry on a hook by the canal, where his sweet factory was.
