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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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*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 == | == 1950s == | ||