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Jericho Street Fair 2010

 

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SF 2010

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  The busy 2010 Jericho Street Fair rapidly gets underway in Canal Street
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  The Community Association stall does a brisk trade in tickets for food and the many attractions
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  Members of the Jericho Youth Club take their chocolate cookies for sale down the street
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  Ted Harris has been checking out the plant sale
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  There's good music and good beer available all day outside the Old Bookbinders pub
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  Oxon Carts offers cycle rickshaw rides
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  Regular favourites are the Irish dancers who perform at the intersection of Canal Street and Cardigan Street.
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  The lead Irish dancers start their 'Riverdance' routine
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  As always, the Irish dancers invite the audience to join in. This time they seem to have found an angel, or maybe a butterfly, as a volunteer.
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  Colin Cook and George Taylor have the hottest job of the day, turning out the burgers on the barbeque
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  John Radford, a regular organizer of activities for older people, enjoys the day
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  One of the day's bestsellers is the I love Jericho T-shirt on sale at the Youth Club stall
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  Johnny Hinks organizes the music on the 'gazebo' stage, performing here with two of his young pupils at the Max Moonlight guitar school.
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  Meanwhile the Chris Padmore band perform on the Bookbinders stage
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  The Street Fair offers a chance to get to know the community police team
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  The Morris dancers perform in front of an audience starting to get anxious about the England versus USA game later in the day
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  Young bouncers queue to enter the castle
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  Members of the St Barnabas Church Sunday School collect coins to make a pavement picture of the chruch
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  Carol Guberman talks to Matt Gibbs, one of the Oxford Brookes students who are consulting residents on an imaginative 'info bench' as part of the improvements to Mount Place
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  Denise Black, who played Denise Osbourne in Coronation Street in the 1990s, is also a powerful singer, here accompanied by Johnny Hinks
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  The raffle this year was drawn by Nicola Blackwood, the new MP for Oxford and Abingdon (left), assisted by Jenny Black, secretary of the Jericho Community Association
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  One of the lucky raffle winners is Emmet Schlueter who won a free hair styling session, duly handed over to his partner Pat
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  A busy day for the stallholders.
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  Scooting round the Street Fair with appropriate health and safety precautions
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  Goods on sale to suit all tastes and pockets, from scented candles to jeans to designer clothes.
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  Paul Hartley readies a competitor for one of the stranger attractions - sumo wrestling
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  The sumo wrestlers prepare to charge at each other
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  This sumo contest has finished up as a draw. They will need Paul to help them get up again.
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  Food is one of the key attractions
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  Mick Clack and Ana Arroyave, the volunteer organizers of the Jericho Youth Club

 

Thanks to everyone who made this year's Street Fair on June 12 such a great success - especially our tireless organizer, Charlotte Christie, to North Oxford Property Services and all the local businesses that donated raffle prizes, to our new MP Nicola Blackwood who kindly volunteered to draw the raffle, and to Oxford City Council for a grant towards hiring the stalls.

Photos for the slideshow by Simon Abrams, Mick Clack, and Peter Stalker.

JCA News

Planning permission for new centre

In order to secure land for a new community centre on the canalside site, the Jericho Community Association applied for outline planning application for the centre. This was granted unanimously by councillors at the Central, South and West Area Committee meeting on June 8, 2010.

This enables us to comply with the legal agreement reached with Spring concerning the transfer of land. Spring has now gone into administratioin but this commitment will pass to any new owner. Detailed plans for the centre will be drawn up later following community consultations.

The shaded area in the drawing below shows the area that the new centre would occupy. You can download the complete drawing as a pdf file by clicking here.

You can view the full planning application on the city council website using the reference 09/01203/OUT, or go there directly by following this link.

For futher details on the canalsided development story please use the New Community Centre links on the left