YESTERDAY, the county fell silent at 11am to remember the fallen of the two World Wars and other conflicts.

The Lord Mayor of Oxford, Alderman Frank Pickstock, on the left, and the pro-vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Sir Kenneth Wheare, are pictured about to place wreaths on the city’s war memorial in St Giles on Remembrance Sunday in November 1967, above.

In November 1960, British Legion Poppy appeal organisers Mrs D Edmonds and Mrs L Power were pictured at Oxford Town Hall preparing poppies for distribution to street sellers.