This was just a short hop really - from one end of Oxford to the other. Probably only 3 miles or so, maybe less, but it sets us up for the much longer stretches upstream of Oxford. We set off from Iffley Lock, which was rebuilt in 1924 by Lord Desborough, then Chairman of the Thames Conservancy. This is commemorated by a bronze bull's head, below.
Just around the bend is a less impressive commemoration monument - this is the Bourne stone, remembering Gilbert Bourne, a former Professor of Zoology and rowing coach. Bourne was coach of numeorus winning boatrace crews, plus a sort of unofficial coach to the Gold and Silver medal winning boats at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Time to climb a tree.
A key milestone - where the River Cherwell joins the Thames, or Isis as we should call it here.
And past Folly Bridge, where Salter's have been hiring boats for a century and a half.
.. and then a small bend of the river along the very edge of Oxford, to arrive at Osney Island.
Just around the bend is a less impressive commemoration monument - this is the Bourne stone, remembering Gilbert Bourne, a former Professor of Zoology and rowing coach. Bourne was coach of numeorus winning boatrace crews, plus a sort of unofficial coach to the Gold and Silver medal winning boats at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. 
Time to climb a tree.
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