Tackley Through Time

Grant aided by West Oxfordshire District Council.

We received grants totalling £1,750 from West Oxfordshire District Council, Tackley Parish Council, Tackley Horse Show and the National Lottery Heritage Fund to establish an exhibition space in the parish church of St Nicholas.

The Tackley Newsletter has a report on its opening in 2018 by Sylvia Reddington.

Old black-and-white photo. A crowd of people, mostly children, gather in the street for the camera.

The exhibition displays artefacts, documents and images from the History Group’s archive and collections, and is divided into four time periods:

Prehistoric and Roman
Anglo-Saxon, medieval and early modern (400–1600)
17th and 18th centuries
1800 to the present

If you have any objects, documents or photographs that you think might be suitable for the exhibition, or for the village archive, please get in touch.

The display will change from time to time, and if it proves successful we hope that other groups in the village will be able to use the space, including local artists.

The Cataraqui Disaster

The exhibition incorporates a display about the wreck of the Cataraqui off the coast of Tasmania on 4 August 1845 when all but nine of the crew and passengers died. Most of the passengers were pauper emigrants, including 42 from Tackley.