Quarry Velo inaugural ride

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I’ve reported occasionally in Headington Headlines about a start-up cycling club emerging from, well let’s be honest, the bar at The Mason’s Arms in Headington Quarry. Quarry Velo @QuarryVelo as it is called organised the Quarry Roubaix ride a couple of weeks ago as part of Oxford Bike Week – an evening ride around all the sections of cobbled streets in the city centre ending unsurprisingly at The Kings Arms.

A successful end to a highly enjoyable #QuarryRoubaix ride. Many thanks to everyone who came with us. pic.twitter.com/H0BUTEFQyA

— Quarry Velo (@QuarryVelo) June 16, 2015

One of the aims of Oxford Bike Week is to encourage more people to get on their bikes. Quarry Velo supports this, and intends to put on a series of social rides open to any- and everyone. Their first ride — about 20 – 25 miles at a comfortable pace — is next Sunday 5 July. If you’re interested, meet outside Bury Knowle Park opposite Stile Road for an 8.30 start. Lycra is not compulsory! For more details don’t tweet me, tweet to @QuarryVelo.

Headington Headlines #220

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 22 – 28 June.

Max Webb, aka SpiderMax, who lives in Headington and goes to Cheney School, is training to be a free-runner. He has landed a role as a stunt double in a major production due to be filmed later this year. He has also been part of the @MessyJamOxford street dance group run by @EshaMessyjam.

There’s been an wild outbreak of utility-type street marking in Sandfield Road, in yellow, white and blue. Who’s going to be doing what there and when was the question. @RuthWilk says it is preliminary survey work for a direct heat link between the JR and the Churchill. I’ll try to find out more. Similar markings have appeared in Latimer and Stapleton too, which seems to back up the heat-pipe story.

There are fresh markings too in nearby Staunton Road. These seem to be to do with moving/replacing the street lights.

A local 13 year old boy, Aown Dogar, died after falling into the Thames near Donnington Bridge on Thurdsay evening. He was pulled from the river and taken to hospital but failed to recover. Aown went to Cheney School and had recently played his first competitive match for Quarry Rovers under-15s. Details are not clear but police are not treating his death as suspicious.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

@OxTweets @HeadingtonNews @VisitOxfordshir Loving the carvings in Bury Knowle Park #Headington pic.twitter.com/J8MVqQJB0s

— Philip Smithson (@PhilHeadington) June 24, 2015

The solitary post on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Cafe Culture
I cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.

Headington Headlines #219

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 15 – 21 June.

Works on the eastern by-pass mean a 30mph speed limit between Cowley and Headington for the next six months while Thames Water replaces the water main that caused severe flooding in Normandy Crescent. Cycle lanes will also be closed at various times.

Risinghurst residents have submitted a formal applicarion to have The Ampleforth Arms registered as an Asset of Community Value.

Choirs from Bayards Hill, St Andrew’s, Wood Farm and Windmill primary schools took part in the Oxfordshire Festival of Voices in Dorchester Abbey on Tuesday.

A person riding a bicycle suffered life-threatening injuries in a collision with a car on Thursday morning. It happened at the Old Road/Gipsy Lane junction: police are appealing for any witnesses.

Work on the new classrooms at @WindmillOxford continues, but people are starting to wonder if they will be ready for the start of the newx term.

Progress at @WindmillOxford – but hard to imagine there'll be a fitted out 2 storey classroom block here in 10 wks pic.twitter.com/tmZ1XZtgDe

— Mike Ratcliffe (@mike_rat) June 19, 2015

The @OXONBIKE hire scheme opened two new stations this week in association with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, one at the Warneford and one at Littlemore. The Oxford Mail carried a report.

Saturday’s rather miserable weather brightened for yesterday’s (Sunday) Old Headington Open Gardens day.

Active posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • St Leonards Road
  • Electronic issues in St Leonard’s Road Car Park
  • Live in Oxford? Fill in our survey on online services (takes 10 minutes)
  • Noise in Quarry
  • Mouse & Trousers Band – Saturday 20th June
I cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.