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[[File:288-2017-02.JPG|frame|February 2017: The City Arms pub basks in morning sunlight, showing off the splendid brickwork.]]

[[File:288-2017-02.JPG|frame|February 2017: The City Arms pub basks in morning sunlight, showing off the splendid brickwork.]] [[File:288-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]

== 1930s-present ==

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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>

~~It is now~~ known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain.

Since 2003 known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain.

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*In the 70s there was a great reggae band that played on Sunday lunchtimes

*One person had a kale smoothie with a shot of gin there.

== 1995 - 2002 ==

Thomsons Directory 1998 to 2002 Philosopher & Firkin public house, and see photo from 1995 on right

== 1950s ==

Jack Allaway, later to become mayor of Oxford, was manager of the University & City Arms during the 1950s when he worked for a company called Cotons Stores, which owned several properties along the Cowley Road. Cotons Stores was started by Alfred Landon and a Mr Collier, and a Mr Tolley, and they owned several properties along the Cowley Road, mainly towards the Plain. It is unclear whether they held the leasehold of this pub or actually owned it.

== 1932 ==

The University and City Arms public house is listed in Kelly's Directory of 1932. The proprietor is listed as Albert Owen <ref>Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932</ref>.

== 1870s-1930s ==

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+[[File:288-2017-02.JPG|frame|February 2017: The City Arms pub basks in morning sunlight, showing off the splendid brickwork.]] [[File:288-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]
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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>
-It is now known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain.
+Since 2003 known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain.
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 *In the 70s there was a great reggae band that played on Sunday lunchtimes
 *One person had a kale smoothie with a shot of gin there.
+== 1995 - 2002 ==
+Thomsons Directory 1998 to 2002 Philosopher & Firkin public house, and see photo from 1995 on right
 == 1950s ==
 Jack Allaway, later to become mayor of Oxford, was manager of the University & City Arms during the 1950s when he worked for a company called Cotons Stores, which owned several properties along the Cowley Road. Cotons Stores was started by Alfred Landon and a Mr Collier, and a Mr Tolley, and they owned several properties along the Cowley Road, mainly towards the Plain. It is unclear whether they held the leasehold of this pub or actually owned it.
+== 1932 ==
+The University and City Arms public house is listed in Kelly's Directory of 1932. The proprietor is listed as Albert Owen <ref>Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932</ref>.
 == 1870s-1930s ==