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This is the page for 116 Cowley Road.
?Date - present
This is BB's hair salon.
2013
This was The FIbreworks - a haberdashery. You can read an interview with the owner by following this link.
1962 - 2007
Kelly's Directory 1976 No 116 R D Cooper newsagent. Coopers became a general store and delicatessen as well as newsagents. It closed in 2007 and there was a lot of local concern about its loss.
This article shows pictures from inside the newsagents where squatters occupied the premises (2007) in protest of the store being shut down and the gentrification of the Cowley Road.
Also at No 116 booksellers and wholesale stationers John Menzies 1968 to 1971, Wyman Marshall Ltd 1962 to 1967, Horace Marshall & Son 1952 to 1960
1950s
Kelly's Directory 1952 to 1960 No 116 Jesse Tyrell newsagents
116a
Thomsons Directory 1991 No 116a Action Despatch Co
Kelly's Directory 1975 to 1976 No 116a E W Manners & Son, plastering contractors
Before then?
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