This left Dr South's with only 34 pupils by 1937. In 1950 Dr South's became a voluntary aided school. In 1954 Dr South's had 84 pupils; it now has modern 20th century premises. A mummers play, dating from 1780, has been linked to Islip. Mummery continued in Islip until at least 1894 with a play depicting a girl called Molly who fell ill with toothache only to find, on extraction, that a nail was causing her the pain. There is another play featuring Fat Jack, a comic servant. The Shakespearean scholar and collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps lived in Islip in the 1840s. Early in the 1920s Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson lived here, and Graves describes their life in the village in "Goodbye to All That". In 2014 the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board unveiled a blue plaque to Graves on the house that he and Nicholson shared in Collice Street. A village resident, Paul O'Connor, made a 30-minute video documentary about the history of Islip. Called "The Village" and presented by Jojo Tobitt of Laneside house, the video was premiered in Islip village hall in 2002 and broadcast via Undercurrents, an Oxford production company. The rock band the Candyskins had its origins in Islip in the late 1970s and 1980s. Islip has two public houses: The Red Lion and The Swan. It has also a community shop and a village hall. Charlton-on-Otmoor Services bus route 94 provides Islip and neighbouring villages with a Monday to Saturday service between Bicester and Oxford "via" Arncott and Gosford. This area has a maritime temperate climate (""Cfb"" by the Köppen system). Precipitation is uniformly distributed throughout the year and is provided mostly by weather systems that arrive from the Atlantic. The lowest temperature ever recorded was in January 1982. The highest temperature ever recorded in Oxford is in August 2003 during the 2003 European heat wave. The average conditions below are from the Radcliffe Meteorological Station. It has the longest series of temperature and rainfall records for one site in Britain. These records are continuous from January 1815. Irregular observations of rainfall, cloud and temperature exist from 1767.