Tweeting unofficially about the history of the City of Oxford, UK (more about town than gown)
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17 Jul 2021
The builder Thomas Kingerlee (Mayor of Oxford in 1911/12) wanted to put a garden in Broad Street and in May 1912 this cabmen’s shelter was demolished in readiness, but local traders as well as the displaced cabmen were against it, and the idea was abandoned
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17 Jul 2021
A new cabmen’s shelter with a pointed roof was erected, and this survived into at least the 1920s: it can just be seen here on the left, when cars were starting to predominate
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17 Jul 2021
Apparently there is a photograph showing the protest by Oxford's cabmen against the idea of a Cabmen's Garden in the Oxford Journal Illustrated of 8 May 1912 (p. 14). There is more information about the cabmen's shelter in Broad Street here oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/h…
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28 Apr 2021
John Everett Millais, aged 23, testifies here as to the validity of the will of George Vandeput Drury of Shotover House, stating that Drury had commissioned from him a picture showing his family quarrelling over his will (Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 24 July 1852)
17 Mar 2021
This fishmonger advertising in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 24 December 1796 sold some exotic food items from his shop in the High
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28 Jan 2021
Brief history of the Elliston & Cavell building in Oxford (latterly Debenham’s) stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/…
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30 Nov 2020
The former Cape of Good Hope on the Plain in Oxford in 1892 @HistoricEngland smartframe.historicenglandse… #HistoricEngland
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20 Nov 2020
City council heritage photographs have been uploaded to PictureOxon. Here are the buildings demolished to make way for the Mathematics Institute in St Giles (zebra crossing leads to surviving Wenn Townsend accountants' office with two gables/Keble Road) pictureoxon.com/frontend.php…
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20 Nov 2020
Here's a film of the Rewley Road swing bridge (which is about to be restored by @OxfordPresTrust) in action in the 1970s youtube.com/watch?v=MT9a_Uav…
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Oxford History retweeted
17 Oct 2020
Join me tomorrow, Sunday 18th October, from 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm for a personalised curated 90-minutes tour visual and immersive virtual journey, through the cobbled streets of the city to hear and learn insights about the university's black scholars. eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-oxf…
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15 Oct 2020
The Church of St Thomas the Martyr in west Oxford is on the updated list of buildings at risk that was published by Historic England today historicengland.org.uk/advic…
Oxford History retweeted
10 Oct 2020
The campaign to found and build @morethanadodo took over a decade to come to fruition. When the museum finally opened in 1860, it combined cutting-edge science with inspiring art.
Find out more by listening to the museum's new series 'Temple of Science' >
bit.ly/3da8aRs
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7 Oct 2020
The University of Oxford has a large collection of historic photographs of the city. Here is a sample oxforduniversityimages.com/r…
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26 Sep 2020
You can now get free open access to a 260-page monograph on the Archaeology of East Oxford. Just click on "Downloads" on the left, then on "PDF", and it will open and you can save it on your computer: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk…
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23 Sep 2020
Today an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was installed at 35 St Giles' to Annie Rogers, a campaigner for women's full membership at the University of Oxford oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaqu…
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23 Sep 2020
There was an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque installed on Monday at 12 King Edward Street to Ivy Williams, the first woman to be called to the English Bar oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaqu…
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19 Sep 2020
On this day (19 September) the Levellers Private Stephen Biggs and Private Roger Piggen, who were executed in the Gloucester Green area the previous day by Cromwell's forces, were buried in St Mary Magdalen churchyard. They are remembered on this plaque
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11 Sep 2020
The First World War memorial of Balliol College's Boys' Club treats all the fallen equally. Here are Will Clack (a shop boy at the age of 13), Spencer Compton (2nd son of the 5th Marquess of Northampton), and Jack Cowles (a fishmonger's porter at the age of 16)
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11 Sep 2020
I am currently putting a little information online about the St Ebbe's boys listed on this war memorial (Balliol has already done the undergraduates), but am finding some of them difficult oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/bal…
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