'Beating the Bounds' at the Museum
This year’s museum exhibition also commemorates the centenary of the tragic accident during the 1924 Beating the Bounds walk. What began as a happy, sociable occasion turned to disaster as the last punt ferrying walkers across the river overturned, throwing adults and children into the water.
Our display tells the story of that day through photographs and eye-witness accounts. In those days of slower communication, it seems that those who had crossed the river earlier went ahead unaware of the accident. They carried on walking the boundary oblivious to the frantic search for those who were missing.
The museum will be open from 2.30 on the afternoon of this year’s Boundary Walk. Please do call in to see the display. The exhibition also ties in with the Charlbury Society talk about the accident by Rob Stepney on the afternoon of Thursday 6th June in the Memorial Hall.
The museum is open Saturdays 10.30-12.30, Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays 2.30-4.30.
