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This is the page for 288 Cowley Road. | This is the page for 288 Cowley Road. | ||
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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.]] | ||
| − | ==1930s-present== | + | == 1930s-present == |
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> | ||
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It is now known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain. | It is now known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain. | ||
| − | == | + | === From [[2017_Cowley_Road_carnival_memory_wall|2017 Cowley Road carnival memory wall]] === |
| − | + | *Was also a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Pubs Scream pub] in the early 2000s | |
| + | *In the 80s women were not allowed in the bar and it was "the most terrifying pub in Oxford". | ||
| + | *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. | ||
| + | == 1870s-1930s == | ||
| − | ==Before then?== | + | A public House called the University and City Arms was recorded at this location in Kelly’s Directory of 1876 and is shown on the Ordance Survey map of 1878.<ref name="cityHeritage" /> |
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| + | == Before then? == | ||
Cowleyroad.org is a DIY community history - help us write it! | Cowleyroad.org is a DIY community history - help us write it! | ||
| − | Do you know more about this business, or remember what was at this address before? | + | Do you know more about this business, or remember what was at this address before? Do you have any old photographs or memories to share? Please add them to the site! Here is a [[How_to_contribute|how-to guide]]. |
| − | Do you have any old photographs or memories to share? | ||
| − | Please add them to the site! Here is a [[ | ||
| − | ==References== | + | == References == |
Revision as of 18:03, 22 July 2017
This is the page for 288 Cowley Road.
February 2017: The City Arms pub basks in morning sunlight, showing off the splendid brickwork.
Contents
1930s-present
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.[1]
It is now known as the City Arms and is part of a pub chain.
From 2017 Cowley Road carnival memory wall
- Was also a Scream pub in the early 2000s
- In the 80s women were not allowed in the bar and it was "the most terrifying pub in Oxford".
- 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.
1870s-1930s
A public House called the University and City Arms was recorded at this location in Kelly’s Directory of 1876 and is shown on the Ordance Survey map of 1878.[1]
Before then?
Cowleyroad.org is a DIY community history - help us write it!
Do you know more about this business, or remember what was at this address before? Do you have any old photographs or memories to share? Please add them to the site! Here is a how-to guide.
