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Cllr Anna Railton 🌹

@annarailton.bsky.social

🌹 Labour city councillor for Hinksey Park, deputy leader & cabinet member for zero carbon Oxford Unofficial bridge champion

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New cafe proposed for city centre to be run by monks Plans for a new cafe in St Giles, Oxford, have been revealed in a planning application - along with the revelation that it would be run by a…

Well definitely going to be trying this one out www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2544125...

06.09.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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In an Oxford barbers πŸ™ƒ

30.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something very delightfully Oxford about someone taking the time to hand-paint a temporary Queens Lane sign when scaffolding covers the original

28.08.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Β£7 on Vinted and actually quite good quality!?

05.08.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted with this purchase

05.08.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've asked a lot and answer is always no

"The traffic must flow"

05.08.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

APPARENTLY YES πŸ˜‚

I cycled 120 miles to see the cathedral the other day only for it to have scaffolding up πŸ™ˆ

02.08.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What losing 10% of your body weight does to you, as told by trips to Wells Cathedral

02.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know why there's pretty much always 2x 5s at the station? Always struck me as a bit inefficient

01.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Entering the sewer to remove the fatberg

Entering the sewer to remove the fatberg

Fat, grease and debris being cleared

Fat, grease and debris being cleared

A fatberg the size of a blue whale has been removed from Oxford’s sewers. It took two weeks to remove the 120-tonne lump of congealed fat, oil, grease and wipes, while maintaining Oxford’s wastewater flow and guarding against high gas levels elevated by the fatberg.

01.08.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Yes, modulo

1) Who pays for the hangars
2) Persuading people to store Β£100s in kit in hangars in a car park...

30.07.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oxford footbridge history depicted in new information boards Oxford City Council has installed two information boards on the history of Gasworks Pipe Bridge in St Ebbe's.

Unofficial bridge champion position CONFIRMED with 2x bits about 2x different bridges in the press today πŸŒ‰βœ¨

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2535010...

30.07.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do love some tufted vetch πŸ₯°

29.07.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is being discussed but there's genuinely not that much room (and it's quite expensive stuff).

29.07.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me too!

29.07.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are not in any way easily mode-switchable trips though (unlike any of the other stuff inside this central zone where a charge in unavoidable).

Would be great if the county was up for funding the inevitable shortfall / alternatives but I'm not super optimistic about that

29.07.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Obituary: Formidable campaigner Barbara Gatehouse was a β€˜living legend’ in city politics FORMER Leys councillor Barbara Gatehouse, who has died aged 89, was a Labour stalwart and β€œliving legend” with a fierce dedication to her family.

It's also been a delight to learn about Barbara Gatehouse who was key to getting the rink built in the first place.

Labour women getting stuff done, I hope to live up to her legacy.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1421846...

29.07.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the radio this morning talking about the impact of congestion charge on the ice rink

πŸ’ lots of kit
⏲️ weird times of day
πŸ—ΊοΈ travelling huge distances
πŸ“… multiple times a week
πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘¦ lots of juniors

Could be absolutely disastrous for clubs & rink without an exemption

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.07.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah quite the brain fart! Exeter College!!

25.07.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Other cities may have better vistas and landmarks, or more impressive colonnades and sprawling public spaces, but few cities do better *glimpses* than Oxford.
Nobody can touch us when it comes to half-seen things that stick in the memory.

25.07.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

YES, this is exactly it

There is no Notre Dame but there are thousands of tiny vignettes.

"A Cambridge Diary" photo series captured this perfectly in the other place

25.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There's a similar glimpse up Turl Street but it loses marks for a flagpole obscuring the spire πŸ‘Ž

25.07.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is one of my favourite views in Oxford

As you pass under the Bridge of Sighs, the gothic spire of Essex College chapel flashes into view for a moment before being lost behind the Sheldonian again. Sublime.

25.07.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

An Oxford landlord will have to pay over Β£11,000 after poor conditions were uncovered in one of his rental properties. Faults included an inadequate fire alarm, lacking ventilation, missing stair guards, and badly maintained fire doors. www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...

22.07.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dodged that today, got over North Wessex Downs via Combe Gibbet which was a fair slog

22.07.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wantage is a bit of a bugger to get to by bike but a very jolly ride to Winchester

22.07.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wantage 🀝 Winchester

Proper good statues of Alfred the Great 🫢

22.07.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Pomodoro did very much get me through writing up my PhD!

22.07.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep there was a deadline - writing AGM minutes up from notes for a meeting on Wednesday πŸ™ˆ

21.07.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just did a task that I've been putting off for 13 months

It took 20 mins

πŸ₯²

21.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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