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This is the page for 190 Cowley Road. | |||
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[[File:190-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]] | |||
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After success of the fortnightly disco, the lack of a legal number of toilets, lack of soundproofing and lack of fire escape, meant that the Coop decided to offer the hall up for lease rather than carrying out the necessary works. I was given the first chance of securing the lease for £11,000, which I could not afford!! Two young men came forward with necessary funds and plans, and after their work was approved, the Coop Hall was renamed the Venue, and became a Mecca for live bands. | After success of the fortnightly disco, the lack of a legal number of toilets, lack of soundproofing and lack of fire escape, meant that the Coop decided to offer the hall up for lease rather than carrying out the necessary works. I was given the first chance of securing the lease for £11,000, which I could not afford!! Two young men came forward with necessary funds and plans, and after their work was approved, the Coop Hall was renamed the Venue, and became a Mecca for live bands. | ||
== | == 1980s == | ||
Thomsons Directory 1991 No 196 Fred's Market Hall, No 190 Stripes Pool Club, No 194 Witox Coin Amusements (Oxford)<br/> Thomsons Directoery 1988 No 196 Cowley Road Market Hall | |||
For a short period of time Fred's Discount Store opened a second store covering the emtire ground floor. They sold all manner of things from toys to furniture having taken over from the Green Shield Stamp shop. This was rather like an Argos Store, where people could redeem books of stamps, collected like vouchers from supermarkets, for articles from kitchen equipment to sports goods. | For a short period of time Fred's Discount Store opened a second store covering the emtire ground floor. They sold all manner of things from toys to furniture having taken over from the Green Shield Stamp shop. This was rather like an Argos Store, where people could redeem books of stamps, collected like vouchers from supermarkets, for articles from kitchen equipment to sports goods. | ||
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== ? | == ?1907 - 1979 == | ||
The building was owned by the Co-operative and was an arcade of shops. Meeting rooms above were used by local political groups for organising. A photo dated October 1979 in Marilyn Yurdan's book The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road has the caption "shortly before it closed". | The building was owned by the Co-operative and was an arcade of shops. Meeting rooms above were used by local political groups for organising. A photo dated October 1979 in Marilyn Yurdan's book The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road has the caption "shortly before it closed". | ||
Kelly's Directory 1976 Nos 190 to 194 Disco (Oxford & District Co-operative Society Ltd). | Kelly's Directory 1920 and 1952 to 1976 Nos 190 to 194 Disco (Oxford & District Co-operative Society Ltd). | ||
== 1935-1945 == | == 1935-1945 == | ||
An image of the Co-op hall and shops [https://www.oxforduniversityimages.com/results.asp?image=OHC002567-01 can be seen here.] | An image of the Co-op hall and shops [https://www.oxforduniversityimages.com/results.asp?image=OHC002567-01 can be seen here.] | ||
During the Second World War the hall was used as a Sick Bay. It was staffed by auxiliary Red Cross nurses, and provided care for evacuee children from London who were too unwell to stay with the families in Oxford that they had been billeted on. It also looked after a few Oxford children who had been taken into care by the City Council. | |||
Conveniently, one of the shops at ground level was a Co-op pharnacy. | |||
== 1907 == | == 1907 == | ||