CFE
This is the page for what would have been 204 to 210 Cowley Road
At present this is Hughes House (residential) and Leon Close.
This space was (probably?) not built with houses but four numbers were left out for them. In 1936 Oxford City Council compulsarily purchased this 2½ acre site for the Schools of Technology, Art & Commerce whose principal was John Henry Brookes (1891-1975 see Dictionary of National Biography). Nothing was built until in 1941 emergency engineering workshops were put up, followed by other huts. The Schools first appeared in Kelly's Directory in 1949 but never given a number. A new site for the Schools was purchased up Headington Hill, the foundation stone was laid in 1952 and this later became the Oxford Polytechnic and then Brookes University. The Cowley Road building later became the Oxford College of Further Education and when it moved to Oxpens this remained the Engineering department. It was listed as such in Kelly's Directory 1976
