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Open Day - Saturday 6 October 2012
Our 2012 Open Day will again be held at The Marlborough School just outside Woodstock. As usual it will run from 10am to 4pm. This venue has a generous flat exhibition area and ample car parking. The accessibility has been appreciated, and remarked upon, by both exhibitors and visitors alike. The Marlborough School web site The Open Day will feature the usual assortment of visiting Societies, publishers, dealers in second hand books and postcards, and the like. Our own Society's range of transcripts and search services will be available for consultation, whilst we will also be manning a beginners' helpdesk. Additionally, there will be computing demonstrations, which will give advice on such things as which genealogical software package to choose, and the use of the internet in family history. The stands will be spread across both the Marlborough Enterprise Centre (MEC) Hall and the adjoining Sports Hall. Admission to the Open Day is free, as is the on-site car park. Light refreshments will be on sale at reasonable prices. The stall-holder details below relate to our last Open Day on Saturday 1 October 2011. There may be others next year!

Open Day - Saturday 6 October 2012

Our 2012 Open Day will again be held at The Marlborough School just outside Woodstock.

As usual it will run from 10am to 4pm.

This venue has a generous flat exhibition area and ample car parking. The accessibility has been appreciated, and remarked upon, by both exhibitors and visitors alike.

The Marlborough School web site

The Open Day will feature the usual assortment of visiting Societies, publishers, dealers in second hand books and postcards, and the like. Our own Society's range of transcripts and search services will be available for consultation, whilst we will also be manning a beginners' helpdesk. Additionally, there will be computing demonstrations, which will give advice on such things as which genealogical software package to choose, and the use of the internet in family history.

The stands will be spread across both the Marlborough Enterprise Centre (MEC) Hall and the adjoining Sports Hall.

Admission to the Open Day is free, as is the on-site car park.
Light refreshments will be on sale at reasonable prices.

The stall-holder details below relate to our last Open Day on Saturday 1 October 2011.
There may be others next year!

The 2011 stall-holders were:
AMP Family History Services – Photos, Postcards, memorabilia packs. Berkshire FHS Bristol and Avon FHS Buckinghamshire FHS Buckinghamshire GS CAB Search - Archival storage solutions Chipping Norton Museum Council for British Archaeology Dorset FHS East of London FHS Family History Partnership - guides for family and local historians Genealogy Printers - family tree charts Guild of One Name Studies Hampshire GS John Townsend Books Kidlington and District Historical Society M and P Barnes - second hand books and postcards Maxbal Genealogy-Family tree charts My History - Family tree software, books and archival storage Newtown Design - Family Tree Drawing Northamptonshire FHS One Stop Genealogy - Family Tree Researchers Oxfordshire Registrars Parchment Oxford - Printers for all print needs Radley History Club R A Longley Publications - Books for the family historian Richard Boddington Postcards Richard Moore Romany and Traveller FHS SoG Census Detectives Staunton Park Genealogy - Family History in the Leigh Park and Havant area The Eureka Partnership - transcribes and publishes material useful to family historians The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust This Way Books The Western Front Association West Middlesex FHS Wiltshire FHS

The 2011 stall-holders were:

AMP Family History Services – Photos, Postcards, memorabilia packs.
Berkshire FHS
Bristol and Avon FHS
Buckinghamshire FHS
Buckinghamshire GS
CAB Search - Archival storage solutions
Chipping Norton Museum
Council for British Archaeology
Dorset FHS
East of London FHS
Family History Partnership - guides for family and local historians
Genealogy Printers - family tree charts
Guild of One Name Studies
Hampshire GS
John Townsend Books
Kidlington and District Historical Society
M and P Barnes - second hand books and postcards
Maxbal Genealogy-Family tree charts
My History - Family tree software, books and archival storage
Newtown Design - Family Tree Drawing
Northamptonshire FHS
One Stop Genealogy - Family Tree Researchers
Oxfordshire Registrars
Parchment Oxford - Printers for all print needs
Radley History Club
R A Longley Publications - Books for the family historian
Richard Boddington Postcards
Richard Moore
Romany and Traveller FHS
SoG Census Detectives
Staunton Park Genealogy - Family History in the Leigh Park and Havant area
The Eureka Partnership - transcribes and publishes material useful to family historians
The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust
This Way Books
The Western Front Association
West Middlesex FHS
Wiltshire FHS

How to get to the Marlborough Enterprise Centre
By Bus from Oxford If you take this option, get off the bus outside Blenheim Palace gates Cross the road and head right towards the speed cameras. Turn left just past these cameras into Cadogan Park, which turns into Princes Ride. This is a straight road, do not turn off it. When you reach the staggered T juntion at the end of Princes Ride turn left into Flemings Road. This is a housing estate with no "main road". At the end of Flemings Road turn right into Shipton Road. The MEC is about 2 minutes walk from this junction. By Car from the North-West (A44) It is possible to turn left in Woodstock onto Hensington Road and take the second right. After a short distance the MEC is on your left and the car park on your right just before the pedestrian crossing. However, this route involves narrow roads and unsigned turns, so we recommend that you drive through Woodstock, turn left at the A4095 roundabout and then follow the directions below. By Car from the South From the South-West (A4095) go straight ahead at the A44 roundabout. From the South-East (A44) turn right at the A4095 roundabout. Take the next left (Shipton Road, signed Hensington). After a sharp right and then a sharp left followed by a speed-chicane, the main car park entrance is on the left and the MEC on the right immediately after the pedestrian crossing. By car from the North-East (A4260, A4095) Turn right from the A4095 into Shipton Road (signed Hensington) and then follow as above.

How to get to the Marlborough Enterprise Centre

By Bus from Oxford

If you take this option, get off the bus outside Blenheim Palace gates
Cross the road and head right towards the speed cameras.
Turn left just past these cameras into Cadogan Park, which turns into Princes Ride.
This is a straight road, do not turn off it.
When you reach the staggered T juntion at the end of Princes Ride turn left into Flemings Road.
This is a housing estate with no "main road".
At the end of Flemings Road turn right into Shipton Road.
The MEC is about 2 minutes walk from this junction.

By Car from the North-West (A44)

It is possible to turn left in Woodstock onto Hensington Road and take the second right. After a short distance the MEC is on your left and the car park on your right just before the pedestrian crossing. However, this route involves narrow roads and unsigned turns, so we recommend that you drive through Woodstock, turn left at the A4095 roundabout and then follow the directions below.

By Car from the South

From the South-West (A4095) go straight ahead at the A44 roundabout.
From the South-East (A44) turn right at the A4095 roundabout.
Take the next left (Shipton Road, signed Hensington).
After a sharp right and then a sharp left followed by a speed-chicane,
the main car park entrance is on the left and the MEC on the right
immediately after the pedestrian crossing.

By car from the North-East (A4260, A4095)

Turn right from the A4095 into Shipton Road (signed Hensington) and then follow as above.

Open Day roadmap

On-site Car Parking
Visitors The car park is just across the road from the MEC. Coming from Woodstock, the entrance is on your right just before the pedestrian crossing. Coming from the A4095, the entrance is on the left immediately after the pedestrian crossing. Some disabled parking is available immediately in front of the MEC itself, please speak to one of the car park stewards if you need to use one of these spaces. Stall-holders It will be possible to get close to the hall early in the day for unloading, and at the end of the day for loading up again. The spaces close to the MEC will be needed for disabled access during the day. Please move your vehicles either to the main car park, or to one of the spaces on the same side of the road as the MEC if you need access to stock during the day. If in doubt, speak to one of the car park stewards.

On-site Car Parking

Visitors

The car park is just across the road from the MEC.
Coming from Woodstock, the entrance is on your right just before the pedestrian crossing.
Coming from the A4095, the entrance is on the left immediately after the pedestrian crossing.

Some disabled parking is available immediately in front of the MEC itself,
please speak to one of the car park stewards if you need to use one of these spaces.

Stall-holders

It will be possible to get close to the hall early in the day for unloading, and at the end of the day for loading up again.
The spaces close to the MEC will be needed for disabled access during the day.
Please move your vehicles either to the main car park, or to one of the spaces on the same side of the road as the MEC if you need access to stock during the day.
If in doubt, speak to one of the car park stewards.

Contacting the Organiser
Mrs Jenny Lee 213 Whitecross ABINGDON OX13 6BW Telephone: 01235 799374 Email: open-day@ofhs.org.uk

Contacting the Organiser

Mrs Jenny Lee
213 Whitecross
ABINGDON
OX13 6BW

Telephone: 01235 799374

Email: open-day@ofhs.org.uk