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[[File:119-2018.jpg|frame|2018]] [[File:119-2017-0309.JPGpng|frame|2017: The pub being refurbished, about to reopen as a Brewdog bar.]]

==Sept 2017- present ==

In March The pub reopened in September 2017under new ownership by large brewing company Brewdog. The interior was completely remodelled, and the pub reverted underused outdoor seating area demolished and replaced with a much larger metal terrace. New 'graffiti' was added to its original name the external wall, covering the ghost sign of The New Inn. Prior to this it had been operating for a brief while under the name "Harry's"original Allsopps brewers.

==? - ?2017 ==

The pub operated for many years under the [[File:119-2017-03.png|frame|2017: New Inn Social has recently returned to its original name after a spell being called 'Harry's' and formerly 'The Corridor, presumably referring to its long narrow interior'.]]

==1870s2004 -1912&nbsp;? ==

The pub operated for many years under the name The Corridor, presumably referring to its long narrow interior. In the early 2000s, undergraduate students at Oriel College were warned by tutors not to visit, as they wouldn't be welcome there. Thomsons Directory 2003 The New Inn Thomsons Directo2004 The Corridor == 1870s-1916 == [[File:119-2013-09-24.jpg|frame|Ghost sign reading ALLSOPP (photographed 24 September 2013)]] The pub originally dates from the mid 1870s.

"Built as the New Inn and recorded in Kelly’s Directory of 1877. It was a brewery pub owned by Samuel Allsopp and Sons. Allsopp’s were a very large Burton on Trent brewery in the late 19th century who made use of the developing railway system to establish a network of public houses across England. ...The pub was either rebuilt or refronted in 1916 by the architects Eadle and Meyers, and retains an attractive frontage to the street including parapet gabled returns to thestreet and faience clad pub frontage."<ref>https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/1551/the_corridor_public_house_119_cowley_road</ref>

&nbsp; ==Before then?==

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