From the Archives

Minutes of Executive Committee – 1st December 1958

The Committee met at the home of Miss Carr, one of the Committee members, and her sister.

“..the proceedings concluded with a gorgeous feast provided by the Misses Carr and the committee became indistinguishable from a jolly party”.

Minutes of Executive Committee – 13th July 1966

On a more serious note - the members had walked a footpath in the parish of Adderbury where there had been problems of obstruction had been previously reported.

“..the second farmer proved obdurate and antagonistic in the ensuing discussion with Col. Dalton and other members of the party; a discussion which descended at times to the level of near unintelligible, incoherent, emotional, ignorant abuse from the farmer with threats of physical assault from his stick and dog. Col. Dalton and others were completely unable to make the farmer understand that there was a right of way across the field by his farm. The lack of understanding and the stonewalling stupidity of bottomless ignorance displayed by the farmer is a most disturbing example of the unsympathetic views often experienced by us in dealing for those responsible for the land over which public rights of way pass.”