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Open Day - Saturday 5 October 2013
Our 2013 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.

Open Day - Saturday 5 October 2013

Our 2013 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.

Last year's stall-holders were:
Berkshire Family History Society Buckinghamshire Family History Society Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society CAB Search Chipping Norton Museum Council for British Archaeology Dorset Family history Society East of London Family History Society Family History Partnership Family and Community Historical Research Society Gloucestershire Family History Society Guild of One Name Studies Hampshire Genealogical Society John Townsend Books Kidlington and District Historical Society Life Histories M and P Barnes Maxbal Genealogy Moments in Time My History Newtown Design Services Nostalgia Online Oxfordshire History Centre Oxford Library Oxfordshire Registrars Oxplorers Parchment Oxford R A Longley Publications Richard Boddington Postcards Richard Moore Romany and Traveller Family History Society Ruskin College Society of Genealogists-The Census Detectives StauntonPark Genealogy Centre The Eureka Partnership The Mills Archive Trust The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust This Way Books Victoria County Histories West Middlesex Family History Society Wiltshire Family History Society

Last year's stall-holders were:

Berkshire Family History Society
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society
CAB Search
Chipping Norton Museum
Council for British Archaeology
Dorset Family history Society
East of London Family History Society
Family History Partnership
Family and Community Historical Research Society
Gloucestershire Family History Society
Guild of One Name Studies
Hampshire Genealogical Society
John Townsend Books
Kidlington and District Historical Society
Life Histories
M and P Barnes
Maxbal Genealogy
Moments in Time
My History
Newtown Design Services
Nostalgia Online
Oxfordshire History Centre
Oxford Library
Oxfordshire Registrars
Oxplorers
Parchment Oxford
R A Longley Publications
Richard Boddington Postcards
Richard Moore
Romany and Traveller Family History Society
Ruskin College
Society of Genealogists-The Census Detectives
StauntonPark Genealogy Centre
The Eureka Partnership
The Mills Archive Trust
The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust
This Way Books
Victoria County Histories
West Middlesex Family History Society
Wiltshire Family History Society

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 parking areas in use will depend on the weather conditions at thee time (and over the previous few days). One is just across the road from the MEC but we will hopefully be using the parking areas on the same side as the school. Watch out for signs as you approach the school. Coming from Woodstock, the entrance is on your left just before the pedestrian crossing. Coming from the A4095, the entrance is on the right a little after the pedestrian crossing - please note that the first turning after the crossing is the exit! 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 'entrance loop' 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 parking areas in use will depend on the weather conditions at thee time (and over the previous few days). One is just across the road from the MEC but we will hopefully be using the parking areas on the same side as the school. Watch out for signs as you approach the school.
Coming from Woodstock, the entrance is on your left just before the pedestrian crossing.
Coming from the A4095, the entrance is on the right a little after the pedestrian crossing - please note that the first turning after the crossing is the exit!

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 'entrance loop' 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