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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 == | == 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> | 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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=== From [[2017_Cowley_Road_carnival_memory_wall|2017 Cowley Road Carnival memory wall]] === | === From [[2017_Cowley_Road_carnival_memory_wall|2017 Cowley Road Carnival memory wall]] === | ||
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*Was also a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Pubs Scream pub] in the early 2000s | *Was also a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Pubs Scream pub] in the early 2000s | ||
*In the 80s women were not allowed in the bar and it was "the most terrifying pub in Oxford". | *In the 80s women were not allowed in the bar and it was "the most terrifying pub in Oxford". | ||
*Was an Irish pub in the late 70s and early 80s. | |||
*In the 70s there was a great reggae band that played on Sunday lunchtimes | *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. | *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 == | == 1870s-1930s == | ||
A public House called the University and City Arms was recorded at this location in Kelly’s Directory of 1876 and is shown on the | A public House called the University and City Arms was recorded at this location in Kelly’s Directory of 1876 and is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1878.<ref name="cityHeritage" /> | ||
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