Wheatley Foresters also known as Oddfellows
Group of Wheatley Foresters undated, presumably The Society of Oddfellows and Foresters, taken adjacent to Harris Stores, 95-97 High Street.
Believed to be from 1919. As Oddfellows, they were still active in 1938, but no sign of them in 1944.
Originally their status was ‘illegal’, but by 1851 this was overturned, as Branch Friendly Societies were declared legal. By this time it had become the largest and richest friendly society in the world, spurred by the Industrial Revolution. By joining a friendly society, workers could protect themselves and their families against illness, injury or death. See https://www.oddfellows.co.uk/about/history/
The Wheatley Society of Oddfellows was active in 1893, if not before. In 1894, as reported in the Oxford Journal on Saturday 18 August 1894, there was also a cricket match between the Merry Bells Cricket Club and Headington, which Wheatley won.
The Oddfellows, reported to be 120 string in a press report in 1908, met in the White Hart
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1924
- Wheatley Football Team c 1950
- Wheatley Football Team 1950/51
- The Keep Fit Group (1970s)
- Wheatley Society Inns and Farms Exhibitions 1994
- The Wheatley Society 1995
- The Wheatley Society walks in 1998
- The Wheatley Society walk in 1999
- The Wheatley Society Red Kite Walk 2000
- The Wheatley Society walk in 1999
- The Wheatley Society walk (archaeological) 2001
- The Wheatley Society walk 2002
- The High Street Wheatley
- Wheatley Cricket XI 1924
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1920s-1937
- Football team
- Wheatley Society Visit to Nuneham Courtenay
- Brownies c. 1932
- Wheatley Cricket Club (c. 1948)
- Wheatley Cricket Club c,1950
- Wheatley Cricket Club (late 1960s)
- Cricket photographs
- Wheatley Cricket Club 1937
- New Club
- Cricket match 1963
- Monday Craft Club
- Wheatley Society officers
- Wheatley Morris Dancers
- Wheatley Morris Dancers
- Wheatley Football Team c. 1948
- Bonnie Martin outside Cricket Pavilion
- Accounts of Village Organisations 1891
- Wheatley Football club archives
- Photo of Wheatley Football Club team in the 1950s
- Photographs of Societies, Clubs and Associations in 1988
- W.I. Tapestry/Sampler
- Monday Craft Club 1983
- Wheatley Morris men
- Rugby Club team 1991
- Wheatley cricket team c.1906
- Not So Young Club
- Holton Cricket Club
- Women's Institute 1990s-2010s
- VPA 70 years booklet 2010
- History of Wheatley W.I.
- Mrs Philip Case, W.I. President 1950 and committee
- Wheatley British Legion
- Friendly Socities in Wheatley
- W.I. Inaugural meetings
- Wheatley Society outing to re-cycling plant
- Inaugural meeting of the Wheatley Village Archive in 2004
- Women's Institute centenary
- Wheatley Society's visits in the 2020s
- Cricket team 1907
- British Legion visit in April 2018
- British Legion visit to the Poppy factory in September 2018
- W.I. Wall-hanging
- Boxes of other organisation's papers
- British Legion visit to the National Memorial Arboretum in 2010
- British Legion visit to RAF Brize Norton in 2017
- W.I. in 1923 and 1924
- Various Wheatley Society reminiscences
- Wheatley Society programme and walks in the 1980s
- Wheatley Society built a stile over the Cuddesdon brook 1981
- Wheatley Society officials
- Wheatley Society walks 1990-1995
- Wheatley Society garden party in 1984
- Wheatley Society walks and outings 2015-2019
- Wheatley Society 'faraway' walks
- Wheatley Society exhibition 1976.
- Wheatley Society talks 2020s
- VPA cups
- Clever Clogs trophy
- Jack Turner's talk on Shotover
- Historical information regarding the Wheatley Society
- Outreach to the schools 2014-2017
- Archive accounts from 2007 bank statements from 2015 and vouchers from 2018