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This is the page for 106 Cowley Road.
2005 - Present
This is The Old Music Hall, an office complex for NGOs, social enterprises and charities is run by the Ethical Property Company, whose head office it is. They acquired the building in 2005[1]. It is now home to over 40 occupants including the New Internationalist media co-operative, People & Planet student campaigning organization and Agile co-op web agency. At the rear of the building is a straw bale kitchen.
1938 - 2006
Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938[2] 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 in Marilyn Yurdan's "The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road" which shows the right hand end as "Toytique"
1912 - 1932 - ?
106 was the Palace Picture House and 108 was Horace Pocock, confectioner[3].
1896? 1898?
The building was constructed in 1898 as a public hall, library and three shops [4].
An article in the Oxford Mail claims that
"the building at 106-108 Cowley Road dates back to 1896, when it was known as the Lyric Hall. It was renamed the Empire Theatre in 1900 before Frank Stuart reopened it as the Palace Picture House cinema in 1912."[5]
Before then?
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References
- ↑ http://www.cantaygroup.com/former-blackwells-building/
- ↑ http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932
- ↑ http://www.ethicalproperty.co.uk/our-centres/oxford/the-old-music-hall
- ↑ http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/
