Update: The A420 at Tubney Wood has cleared after the earlier crash involving a motorcyclist. A420 at Tubney Wood partially blocked after crash involving a motorcyclist. Oxford Mail: Photograph of the Author. Keeley Rodgers, Group News Editor. Call me ...
IN THE early 1990s, amateur historian Nigel Dawe visited a friend who was moving into a new workshop at Tubney Wood near Abingdon. It was a simple trip that would take him on a journey into the past. It took him a while to find the entrance to the site ...
Mr Dawe said: “One of the places where barrels were made was in Coventry but the factory received four direct hits and a 15-acre site was chosen near Oxford, in Tubney Wood. The Bofors Gun was a superb gun – and it is still used today.” On D-Day, and ...