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== 1938 - 2006 ==
Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/</ref> and converted it to offices and a book store. Kelly's Directory 1976 D & A Fashions Ladieswear Nos 106-110. This is visible in a photo of 1974 in Marilyn YurdanMalcolm Graham & Lawrence Waters's "The Changing Faces of the Cowley Roadand East Oxford Past and Present" which shows the right hand end as "Toytique"
== 1912 - 1932 - ? 1937 ==
106 was the Palace Picture House and 108 was Horace Pocock, confectioner<ref>Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932</ref>.
== 1896? 1898? 1890s-1900s == The East Oxford Constitutional Hall appeared in Kelly's directories at No 106 from 1890, (or rather it only became No 106 in 1893 when the Cowley Road was completely renumbered), soon being joined by the Free Reading Room and the East Oxford Conservative Club, and joined in 1903 by the Empire Theatre, next called the Oxford Theatre and the Oxford Hippodrome (1911), and then the Palace Picture House (a cinema) from 1913 to 1937.
The building was constructed in 1898 as a public hall, library and three shops <ref>http://www.ethicalproperty.co.uk/our-centres/oxford/the-old-music-hall</ref>.
