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,[[File:250CowleyRdbyGeograph.JPG|frame|2008: A photo of the Excelsior cafe exterior by Ceridwen from geograph.co.uk]]
"The Excelsior Cafe - sadly no longer there! A cafe where EVERYONE was welcome - people with psychosis, homeless, drug dealers...I never saw anyone upset in there, under the safe, kind, strong compassionate, humorous waiter from Cyprus, Costa, may he rest in peace. The coffee was the best in Oxford, speaking as an (Italian!) expert. The owner was an elderly man with immobility problems, and they ran this service with the softest and firmest of presence. I met many people in there. My mother, a long time hospitalised for "schizophrenia" (which I don't believe in) felt at home there."
== Before then? ==