W.I. Tapestry/Sampler
W.I. Tapestry (also referred to as Mrs. May’s sampler?) hanging in the Merry Bells.
The centre text reads:
“Wheatley – that most bullbaitingest and cockfightingest of villages – as its inhabitants describe it.” This quote appears in the Oxford Mail, May 1975.
According to W.I. minutes the tapestry was already being made in December 1971. It was shown to the public at a W.I. coffee morning in May 1973. It is thought to have been submitted to a county exhibition/competition entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Heirlooms’ in Spring 1974. Mrs May was congratulated on being awarded a ‘Silver Star’with the judges comment "...& the whole makes a splendid co-operative entry". It is thought it may later have been part of a national exhibition/competition in the Spring of 1975. The W.I. was given permission to display the tapestry in the Merry Bells in January 1975, originally in the coffee room and later in the main hall.
The 38 names embroidered around the edge are thought to have been involved in its creation or members of the W.I. at the time.
Top: Tull, Knight, Green, Audley-Miller, Hodge, Kerr, Course, Berry, Sheldon, Shrimpton.
Left side: Panting s, (2 members named Panting?) Robinson, Spittal, Powell, Badcock, Thomas, Griswold, Hargreave,
Base: White, Clark, Tabor, Hassall, Wheeler, Arthur, Crick, Oake, McGowan, Underwood.
Right side: Coles, Evans, Trinder, May, Godley, Fletcher, Woodward, Barrett, Harris
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1924
- Wheatley Football Team c 1950
- Wheatley Football Team 1950/51
- The Keep Fit Group (1970s)
- Wheatley Society Inns and Farms Exhibitions 1994
- The Wheatley Society 1995
- The Wheatley Society walks in 1998
- The Wheatley Society walk in 1999
- The Wheatley Society Red Kite Walk 2000
- The Wheatley Society walk in 1999
- The Wheatley Society walk (archaeological) 2001
- The Wheatley Society walk 2002
- The High Street Wheatley
- Wheatley Cricket XI 1924
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1920s-1937
- Football team
- Wheatley Society Visit to Nuneham Courtenay
- Brownies c. 1932
- Wheatley Cricket Club (c. 1948)
- Wheatley Cricket Club c,1950
- Wheatley Cricket Club (late 1960s)
- Cricket photographs
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1937
- New Club
- Cricket match 1963
- Monday Craft Club
- Wheatley Society officers
- Wheatley Morris Dancers
- Wheatley Morris Dancers
- Wheatley Football Team c. 1948
- Bonnie Martin outside Cricket Pavilion
- Accounts of Village Organisations 1891
- Wheatley Football club archives
- British Legion
- Photo of Wheatley Football Club team in the 1950s
- Photographs of Societies, Clubs and Associations in 1988
- Monday Craft Club 1983
- Wheatley Morris men
- Rugby Club team 1991
- Wheatley cricket team c.1906
- Not So Young Club
- Holton Cricket Club
- Women's Institute 1990s-2010s
- VPA 70 years booklet 2010
- History of Wheatley W.I.
- Mrs Philip Case, W.I. President 1950 and committee
- Wheatley British Legion
- Friendly Socities in Wheatley
- W.I. Inaugural meetings
- Wheatley Society outing to re-cycling plant
- Inaugural meeting of the Wheatley Village Archive in 2004
- Women's Institute centenary
- Wheatley Society's visits in the 2020s
- Cricket team 1907
- Wheatley Foresters also known as Oddfellows
- British Legion visit in April 2018
- British Legion visit to the Poppy factory in September 2018
- W.I. Wall-hanging
- Boxes of other organisation's papers
- British Legion visit to the National Memorial Arboretum in 2010
- British Legion visit to RAF Brize Norton in 2017
- W.I. in 1923 and 1924
- Various Wheatley Society reminiscences
- Wheatley Society programme and walks in the 1980s
- Wheatley Society built a stile over the Cuddesdon brook 1981
- Wheatley Society officials
- Wheatley Society walks 1990-1995
- Wheatley Society garden party in 1984
- Wheatley Society walks and outings 2015-2019
- Wheatley Society 'faraway' walks
- Wheatley Society exhibition 1976.
- Wheatley Society talks 2020s
- VPA cups
- Clever Clogs trophy
- Jack Turner's talk on Shotover
- Historical information regarding the Wheatley Society
- Outreach to the schools 2014-2017
- Archive accounts from 2007 bank statements from 2015 and vouchers from 2018