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[[File:35-1972.JPG|frame|1972: The Uhuru Wholefoods shopfront in its original design and colours. Photo by Jane Kilpatrick.]]
== 2017 ==[[File:35-1972-closeup.JPG|frame|1972: A close-up of the Uhuru shopfront. Photo by Jane Kilpatrick.]]
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,[[File:35-1975.JPG|frame|1975: Uhuru Wholefoods shop. Linda Lumb (left) and John Clark (right) were members of the co-op. Photo by Jane Kilpatrick.]]
[[File:35-1970.JPG|frame|1970: 'Uhuru is coming' - the shop unit shortly before Uhuru opened here. Photo by Jane Kilpatrick.]] == ?-Present == This is now a residential property. It is one of a number of properties across the city run as supported housing by Oxfordshire Mind.
== 1980s ==
Many of the women were very politically active and organised Reclaim the Night marches and support for the Greenham Common camp, as well as producing the women's magazines, Lillith, which was sold in local newsagents. The glass front of the Women's Centre was still as seen in the photo below, and Disco attendees were not safe from late night drunken youths trying to force entry. The Women's Centre disco disbanded once Jackie Sunderland and Kim Williams started up the Early Gaze Disco in the Coop Hall (at [[190|190]] Cowley Road), now the O2 Academy.
A story from one of the women at the Women's Centre in the early 1980s:
"When the sex shop eventually opened, we were naturally unhappy with it and used to graffiti the front from time to time. One time we had some nice tangerine paint and painted some lovely slogans in the middle of the night. The next day I was cycling in to town. I paused to admire our handiwork - a masterpiece. However, I then looked down and saw the tangerine coloured footprints leading back to the Women's Centre! I had to run to my nearest friend's house and arrange a mop party as quickly as possible."
Shortly after this, in the late eighties, the building was renovated and made into a men only Mind House. Oh the irony!
There is a history of the early days of Uhuru, called ‘A Working Collective’ written by members of the collective - does anyone have a copy for reference? (There are 2 copies at Oxford History Centre). Annie Skinner’s history of the Cowley Rd is also a record of that era and Uhuru’s development.
One of the many projects that met at Uhuru was the [[BackStreetBugle]], a radical newspaper that was published from November 1977 to September 1981.
== 1950s - 1972 ==
