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The present building was constructed in the late 1930s in the Jacobean revival style. It is an example of an ‘improved public house’, part of a move by breweries in the interwar years to signal the increasingly respectable status of pubgoing as a social activity.<ref name="cityHeritage">https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/1549/the_city_arms_cowley_road</ref> | The present building was constructed in the late 1930s in the Jacobean revival style. It is an example of an ‘improved public house’, part of a move by breweries in the interwar years to signal the increasingly respectable status of pubgoing as a social activity.<ref name="cityHeritage">https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/1549/the_city_arms_cowley_road</ref> | ||
Since 2003 known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain. | |||
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*One person had a kale smoothie with a shot of gin there. | *One person had a kale smoothie with a shot of gin there. | ||
== 1998 == | == 1998 - 2002 == | ||
Thomsons Directory 1998 Philosopher & Firkin public house | Thomsons Directory 1998 to 2002 Philosopher & Firkin public house | ||
== 1950s == | == 1950s == | ||