Middleton Stoney ROC Post - Oxfordshire - July 2008

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ukmayhem

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As the weather was not that great today i thought i would do a close to home and Dryish explore. Middleton Stoney ROC post is 5 miles away from where i live but never knew it was there until doing a search last night so i thought i would pop along to take alook.

The site is on a mound in a small square compound on the East side of an un-named minor road, 200 yards North of Bicester road (B4030).

The post is unlocked and in a real mess, looks like local youths have been using it as a place to hang out, its been ripped to shreds, rubbish, candles and grafiti everywhere. Its a real shame :(

Anyway worth a visit heres some pictures

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Like i said its a shame its been so damaged compared to what it was like in 1998 when it was visited by subbrit - MIDDLETON STONEY ROC POST


Matt
 
Well done for getting out there mate, it's more than I did this weekend!

That particular post was always likely to be wrecked. It's close to a road so access is easy, it's not screened by vegetation and it's just down the road from Bicester which I'm sure UKMayhem will agree is a bit of a chav town in places. It was chav'd long before forums like this one started featuring ROC posts.
 
its a backwards one!
never been in one where its the other way round lol
 
Well done for getting out there mate, it's more than I did this weekend!

That particular post was always likely to be wrecked. It's close to a road so access is easy, it's not screened by vegetation and it's just down the road from Bicester which I'm sure UKMayhem will agree is a bit of a chav town in places. It was chav'd long before forums like this one started featuring ROC posts.

Tell me about it mate, 100's of kids now swarm the streets at night its a joke and there not growing up when there 17 and then they can drive and cause more trouble wide spread. Just hope they never find away into RAF Bicester and wreak that!
 
Tell me about it mate, 100's of kids now swarm the streets at night its a joke and there not growing up when there 17 and then they can drive and cause more trouble wide spread. Just hope they never find away into RAF Bicester and wreak that!

It's what you get when the local council is bent as the proverbial 3 pound coin.

Back in the '90s the council gave loads of planning consent toloads of rich property developers for huge estates but didn't give any for any facilities. So we've got loads of people living there and their kids are growing up with nothing to do. No cinema, no bowling alley, no nothing, not even the temple of chav-dom, McDonalds. That kind of crap planning doesn't happen without a little oil in the wheels.

I guess I can't particularly blame the chavs for growing up feral in Bicester because it's not their fault there's nothing else there for them to do. Oh, I forgot - we've got a designer label outlet village, whoop-de-doo!


I think RAF Bicester's safe. Even chavs develop a sense of which type of policemen will give them a kicking and which won't when they grow up in a garrison town.
 
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It's the price we pay for advertising on the internet.

As everyone has said, very sad. There wasn't much in it when I saw it in 98 but it was clean and tidy and a few yerars later it hadn't changed.

The Sub Brit web site has been blamed in the past for posts geting trashed but if I believed that I would have removed the database. It probably leads to posts getting visited by responsible enthusiasts which is a good thing but I dodn't belive the morons who do that kind of damage have the intelligence or interest to find the database, find the post on it, go and find it on the ground and then trash it so I dodn't think the internet is to blame (there will of course be exceptions).

I am sure it is just local word of mouth and local children doing what local children often do these days. I used to trespass all the time as a kid, I can remember riding round on the sprinklers at the local sewage works which was great fun but we never damaged anything, that's the different with the youth of today (not all of them of course).

In 1998 the post had only been closed 7 years, now it''s been closed 17 years, it's obvious that a lot more local people will have discovered it in the last 10 years. Most of the early closure posts (1968) that I visited were in poor internal condition because they has been derelict for 30 years (now 40 years)

Sorry to rant but it annoys me to see that unnecessary vandalism.

Nick
 
I agree apart from where relics such as teletalks are concerned. I honestly believe there are people on the internet, viewing our sites that would quite happily break and enter to steal such things.

Is it our responsibility not to advertise such things? I'm not sure. It's up for debate really.
 
Was there a reason for the "backward" posts? I haven't been in one yet but from the photos they look like a mirror image of the usual posts. Just curious if it was for a purpose.
 
Was there a reason for the "backward" posts? I haven't been in one yet but from the photos they look like a mirror image of the usual posts. Just curious if it was for a purpose.

I asked about this some time agao and it would appear they were all a mistake. The post builders all worked from the same plans and all the posts should have been the right way round. Sometimes you get them in batches so if a contractor get's one wrong the others he builds might be wrong as well. One contractor (always local to the area) would build a batch of posts. There are quite a few in Devon that are the wrong way round.

Nick
 
I agree apart from where relics such as teletalks are concerned. I honestly believe there are people on the internet, viewing our sites that would quite happily break and enter to steal such things.

Is it our responsibility not to advertise such things? I'm not sure. It's up for debate really.


Fair point. I'm not condoning any kind of removal of artefacts but it's still better to take something than to trash the post.

I just wish people would "leave only footprints, take only picture". Leave artefacts for others to enjoy as well. Of course if a post is about to be destroyed that is a different matter.

I would guess some items have been taken for posts that are being restored.

Nick
 
I asked about this some time agao and it would appear they were all a mistake. The post builders all worked from the same plans and all the posts should have been the right way round. Sometimes you get them in batches so if a contractor get's one wrong the others he builds might be wrong as well. One contractor (always local to the area) would build a batch of posts. There are quite a few in Devon that are the wrong way round.

Nick

Thanks Nick! That makes sense as I have seen pictures of a lot of posts in Wales that are like this.

By the way, its great to see you on this site:)
 
Middleton Stoney - chavved

Got to say that I visited a lot of Posts in 2005 in the Midlands using the Subbrit database as reference and virtually all were in a very similar state as when Subbrit had visited - several still had Teletalks (Nesscliffe and Great Bolas come to mind). I've since re-visited quite a few of the Posts since forums such as 28DL (and others) started reporting specifically on ROC sites - the Teletalks have now gone and many Posts which had survived since 1991 have now been trashed (Market Drayton is a good example).

This is not a dig at 28DL or this forum (I've posted a lot of ROC visits on there myself) but just a realisation that when something gets popular ( and the forums have that interaction that the Subbrit database doesn't) then people who might otherwise not have made the effort get an 'easy win' and use the information for their own purposes.

Serious Bobblehead :neutral:
 

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