This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Fisher Row has changed and developed over the last century.

Occupational communities were a feature of towns in the past, but they have been neglected by urban historians. This book is the study of such a community over a period of four hundred years. Fisher Row in Oxford lies between two streams of the Thames, and its inhabitants have long been connected with boats. There was a huddle of fishermen's houses here in the 16th century, bargemen joined them in the 17th century, and canal boatmen after the opening of the Oxford Canal.This study will appeal to a wide spectrum of social and economic historians and historians of the family as well as to local historians and British historians in general.

Nicholas Fisher (1730-1794) was probably born in Germany. He died in Greenville Co., S.C. He married probably in Halifax Co., Virginia, Elizabeth? (1740-aft. 1794). They had nine children. Only records on Mary Fisher (1760-1829), who married James Tubb, Sr. before 1780; and John Fisher (1756-1837) have been found. Both children were born in Halifax Co., Va. John Fisher married (1) ca. 1776?; (2) 1779 Elizabeth?; and (3) 1825 Lucinda Trammel. He died in DeKalb Co., Tennessee. Mary Fisher Tubb died in Liberty, Tennessee. Family lived in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Descendants live in Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio and elsewhere.