Visiting magnet fishers found some unusual finds when they spent the day exploring the river bed at Osney today. As well as a significant haul of scrap metal, their day’s ‘fishing’ also uncovered old hand grenades and an ancient musket grenade. Five of the grenades, thought to date from World War one were found to be live, resulting in the closure of the tow path while the bomb squad were called in to safely dispose of the items. The magnet fishers represented a number of different clubs from the Midlands, including the Peaker Dippers, Dudley Dippers, Northants Magnet Fishing and Rusty Nutz magnet fishing club. Using large magnets to trawl the river bed, they spent the day unearthing items along the East Street side of the island. Their other finds included two antique muff pistols,. These miniature guns were believed to date from the 1820s, and club members told us they can be often be found near old river side pubs.
Pledge target reached in just 9 days!
16 April 2013
Wow! We’ve hit our pledge target in just 9 days! Given the phenomenal response to the share offer we are now reassessing our financial model to calculate the potential to accept a greater level of investment. This would enable us to reduce the level of loans taken out to fund the project.
We currently estimate we expect to increase the amount of investment we can accept, however we want to take advice and will announce our final decision on the website as soon as possible.
Investment reaches £150,000 in first week
15 April 2013
We have been bowled over by the phenomenal interest we have received in the first seven days since the share offer launched. Pledging via the website started within minutes of the offer going live, and has continued steadily ever since – with almost £50,000 pledged via the site on Sunday alone. Of the £219,00o pledge to date – over £150,000 has been received as applications.
Thank you to everyone for your amazing support of the project.