Yesterday's news 5th February 1960

57 year controversy ends
Cumnor votes for street lighting
By 34 votes to 26 people of Cumnor village last night approved the provision of street lighting and gave their Parish Council the right to have the work started. The decision applied to all of Cumnor except Dean Court ward (which is already lit) and Farmoor.
Thus a narrow majority ended an argument which was said to have been going on since 1903.
The meeting was shown a plan of the lighting drawn up by the Southern Electricity Board, with 60 lamps distributed throughout the ward. The cost of installation would be about £2,300 - or £30 a lamp - and it would cost a 6d rate in the first year. The lighting as proposed would cost ratepayers around £520 a year. About 100 people heard the discussion among the villagers in the New School.
"This won't make Cumnor another Kidlington," said Mr Frank Cheeseman, the Chairman.

Oxford Mail. Friday 5th February 1960 page 9

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