Description: Note early motor cars parked in the background. This event was possibly staged in the park of Oxton Hall.
Thanks to contributor Andrew Smith who states: "The South Notts. Hunt held their point to point races at Oxton up to and including 1939. The racecourse was approximately a half-mile or so from the village on Fallows Lane. A large field on the lane is still known as the racecourse field and is where the enclosure was. Many of the fields on Fallows Lane were ploughed up for the war effort and were never put back to grass, so the racing finished at this time.
As a child who was born and lived in Oxton from the 1950s to the 1980s, I have many fond memories of walking up Fallows Lane and my dad would point out where various fences (particularly the water jump) stood . There was one fence in particular on the lane itself at the Far Lawn field where the rails were held in place with horseshoes and this was still in evidence up to the late 1970s. For more information, see the booklet "Oxton Then & Now" which was published for the millennium."