The roaring '20s!
Cotswold Life|January 2020
Tracy Spiers sends a toothsome New Year’s wish from the Oxfordshire town of Woodstock
The roaring '20s!

A sharp-toothed voracious Megalosaurus threatens to engulf me with its giant jaw as I enter the Oxfordshire Museum’s Dinosaur Garden. I’m grateful that it’s only a sculpture and that its roar is silent. But it still has the power to intimidate. This dinosaur, which lived 168 million years ago was the first to be studied scientifically and its long trackways of fossilised footprints were discovered in Oxfordshire in 1997.

It is one of Woodstock’s famous residents and a prominent landmark which has attracted many visitors over the years. Behind the Grade I listed Woodstock Gate lies another – Blenheim Palace, a place of magnificence and grandeur and birthplace of the late British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill.

So why do I feel the urge to begin with a dinosaur? Bear with me, dear reader. I am more interested in its roar, or should I say the town’s roar. The dinosaur represents the past, its cry long silent, thankfully. Today I am focussing on a more important roar – a healthy positive roar which, instead of devouring the likes of unsuspecting prey, seeks to build, restore and bring health to the community. I refer to Oxfordshire’s town plethora of independent businesses and their New Year Wish for Woodstock. The year 2020 is an opportunity to roar about what they have to offer with their specialist trades and services, not only to this community, but to those visiting from far and wide.

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