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Now look at me Banburys all over the floor!
Brief Encounter | 25.01.23 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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I am delighted to see a report on my home town, and well-researched. The lack of bakeries is a scandal, but it is good you found the Banbury Cakes - I recommend warming them lightly. In the seventies and eighties, the two free news papers were The Focus, and The Banbury Cake - maybe the only newspaper named after a cake?
And the cattle market is still mourned.
The Banbury Man | Homepage | 25.01.23 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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What fun. I automatically switch my car's air-con to recirculating mode when passing Banbury on the M40 as I can't abide the food processing smell. But it's nice town, nonetheless. And now I want a Banbury cake.
Waterhouse | 25.01.23 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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The only place I have come across a Banbury Cake was at Severn Beach near Bristol.
Terry Ough | 25.01.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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I have spent a couple nights in Banbury, as I have a friend that lives nearby. I never knew about the eponymous cake when I was there, otherwise I would have tried to seek it out as well. For my next visit, I know where to get one (or, more correctly, three).
Greg | 25.01.23 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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Banbury will be a border town when England is chopped up into three or four regions.
I wonder if you noticed whether the lower-quadrant railway signal installed in 2010 are still in place.
Malcolm of Kent | 25.01.23 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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I always assumed Banbury Cross was the cross roads at the center of Banbury. Was I wrong?
SimonP | 25.01.23 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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The off-centre placing of the roundabout around the cross bothers me.
Herned | 25.01.23 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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I've watched the decline of the Banbury tourist information centre into a gift shop. Indeed, the reduction in paper-based information may make such centres an extinct species in the not too distant future.
The railway station is a rare example of one built in the 1950s, in the Festival of Britain style, but much mucked around ever since.
Man of Kent | 25.01.23 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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I'm not sure the Puritans were particularly "joyless" - I have a feeling they found joy in simplicity rather than elaboration. Built over a century after Cromwell, that Parish Church seems an admirable counterpoint of austerity with decoration.
cau1khead | 25.01.23 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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I imagine this article will boost visitor numbers to the church a little bit!
Mikey C | 25.01.23 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Nice day for a gadabout. Glad your quest for Banbury Cake was ultimately successful.
Another one who hates the taste, but loves the smell of coffee. Going past Hayes in West London was always a treat - would the Nestle's factory be belching out the smell of coffee or chocolate?
Cornish Cockney | 25.01.23 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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Well, that was more cheerful than yesterday.
Peter | 25.01.23 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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I find it hard to believe there are no independent bakers in a place like Banbury. We have two in Crouch End. Surely a great business opportunity for an enterprising baker - knock out proper Banbury cakes for locals and tourists?
dg writes: never risk a surely.
Johnny Topaz | 25.01.23 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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Yes, some tourist/visitor information centres are becoming little more than fripperies and gift shops, but the successful quest 3 proves that the service they provide can be very underrated.
Steven Saunders | 25.01.23 - 4:00 p.m. | #
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Banbury Cakes may be ordered online here from the local craft baker who supplies the TIO.
David B | 25.01.23 - 4:12 p.m. | #
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I was born in Banbury. Dad once bought a Nissan Sunny from one of the many car forecourts down wind from the old Bird's custard factory, already roasting coffee by then. The inside of that car had a distinct coffee smell for many years - by no means the worst odour on frantic school runs.
Nick | 30.12.23 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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