Contact

The Trustees: (correct as at June 2021):

Michael Barnes has directed over 40 TV documentaries for broadcasters in UK, USA and Canada. While a producer for the PBS NOVA science series he devised a completely new approach to archaeology on TV (that has since been widely imitated). In the Pyramid Builders (BBC Horizon) he teamed up archaeologists and engineers to establish how ancient structures were built, by attempting to re-build a mini pyramid on the Giza plateau, using the tools and techniques available at the time. For NOVA and C4, an image in a scroll of a unique 12th Century Song woven beam arch was reconstructed over a canal outside Shanghai. This design became a candidate for St. Barnabas piazza bridge and has led to a collaboration with Jericho Wharf Trust and Carpenters Fellowship to find another design that will meet the requirements of Canal and River Trust.

Mark Davies is an Oxford local historian, guide and author, one of whose special interests is Jericho and especially the suburb’s relationship with the Oxford Canal, on which he lived in a residential narrowboat for nearly 30 years. Mark was a trust fundraiser with Oxfam 18 years, and is currently on the committee of the Lewis Carroll Society and the Alliance of Literary Societies. He is advising the Museum of Oxford on historical context prior to its reopening in the autumn of 2021.

David Feeny has lived in Oxford for 40 years, the past 15 of them in Jericho. He has been a JLHT Trustee since 2009 – attracted by the wonderful opportunity to create a community-centric development on the Canal-side site. 12 years later he is still hopeful, and working for success through JLHT and the Jericho Wharf Trust. His day-job career started in the IT industry as techie and later Marketing Manager; before the mid-life crisis brought him back to Oxford for a second career in the University’s then emerging management studies activity. Now an Emeritus, he still delights in acting as College Adviser for students of Green Templeton College – and dining there in the Observatory Tower.

Sean Robinson has lived in and around the Jericho area for 10 years, and as a child grew up in West Oxfordshire. He trained as a PhD biochemist and now works in new drug development in the biotech industry, specialising in innovation, business development and project management. Outside of work, Sean is very interested in local history, live music, and protecting the environment. He and his family are Friends of the Trap Grounds, a small nature reserve in North Oxford. 

Contact us today.

Email: Mark Davies, Chair

General Inquiries
mark.oxhist@gmail.com