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Map of Banbury |
1 - Known as Banburyshire, good business community and communication routes.
2 - Johnathan Swift is reputed to have taken the name 'Gulliver' from a tombstone in St Mary's Churchyard. ( Library book pinned to the ground )
3 - Castle Quay Shopping Centre- the site of original castle built in 1135. ( castellation decoration in border).
4 - Jacobs Douwe Egbert symbol - Worlds largest coffee- processing facility. (symbol)
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Douwe Egbert symbol - I have milk in my coffee, hence the cow! |
5 - Banbury Cakes - Made using a secret recipe that dates back to at least 1586
6 - Trial electric Post Office delivery vans built by Arrival Ltd
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7 - Spinning Wheel - at the start of the 19th c banbury was weaving 'plush', fabric with around 1000 workers in and around Banbury.
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Plush Fabric |
8 - Compass- Stone sun sculpture on Banbury Town Hall.
9 - Border based on Banbury Coat of Arms, sun ,and wavy bar.
castellation of castle and shields of battles.
10 - Tom Rolt -Author of 'Narrowboat'and one of the
instigators of keeping canals alive for work and leisure. Had his boat Cressy restored at Tooleys boat
yard in 1939.
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11 - Birds Custard used to be made in Banbury. (Birds logo near Bluebird Bridge.))
12 - Reindeer Inn. Used by Oliver Cromwell.
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13 - Thomas Hankinson donated the initial piece of land. His family were local High Street butchers, who sold hand-made faggots called 'spice balls'.
14 - The hearts are based on the decoration of a building in Butchers Row.
15 - Novelist Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange while teaching at Banbury Grammar School.
16 -The racing car is my symbol for both Haas F1 racing team and Prodrive who design,construct and race cars.
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Map of Banbury |
17 -Chapbooks- Cheap printed books printed using 'Banbury blocks' (wood engraved blocks.)
18 - Banbury was once the home to Europe's largest cattle market.
19 -Tooley's Boatyard - The oldest working dry dock in Britain, repairing and building boats since 1790.
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Tooley's Boatyard |
20 - Alfred Beesley (1800-1847) topograper and poet.
21 - Dick Chipperfield, English Circus animal trainer and circus owner.(1904 – 1988)
22 - Pioneer of X-Rays ,Richard Reynold's (1829-1900)
23 - It is thought that Celia Fiennes was the fine lady on a white horse. Her family owned Broughton Castle. Bells symbolize wealth and rings authority.
24- Banbury Cheese, mentioned by Shakespeare in a few of his plays. It was produced in one inch rounds so became a byword for anything unreasonably thin.
25-Larry Grayson born in Banbury in 1923 , known for his catch phrase 'Shut that door!'
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