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== This is the page for 190 Cowley Road. ==

This is the page for 190 Cowley Road.

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[[File:190-2017-04.JPG|frame|2017]]

[[File:190-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]

== 2007 - present ==

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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 1952 to 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 ==

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 ==

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+This is the page for 190 Cowley Road.
 << [[CFE|CFE]]&nbsp;[[188|188]] >>
 [[File:190-2017-04.JPG|frame|2017]]
+[[File:190-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]
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 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&nbsp; in Marilyn Yurdan's book The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road has the caption "shortly before it closed".
-Kelly's Directory 1952 to 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 ==
 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 ==