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This is The Old Music Hall, an office complex for NGOs, social enterprises and charities is run by the [http://www.ethicalproperty.co.uk/ Ethical Property Company], whose head office it is. They acquired the building in 2005<ref>http://www.cantaygroup.com/former-blackwells-building/</ref>. It is now home to over 40 occupants including the [https://newint.org New Internationalist] media co-operative, [https://peopleandplanet.org/ People & Planet] student campaigning organization and [https://agile.coop/ Agile co-op] web agency. At the rear of the building is a straw bale kitchen.

== ~~1938~~ 1950s - ~~2006~~ 1970s ==

~~Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/</ref> and converted it to offices and a book store.~~ Kelly's Directory 1975 to 1976 D & A Fashions Ladieswear Nos 106-110. This is visible in a photo of 1974 in Malcolm Graham & Lawrence Waters' "Cowley and East Oxford Past and Present" which shows the right hand end as "Toytique". In 1975 Dennis Brown, owner of D & A Fashions was fined £5 for displaying an indecent jeans patch in his window.<ref>Times 25 Nov 1975 page 5</ref> Kelly's Directory 1972 to 1973 Nos 106 to 110 Oxford Illustrators, publishers Kelly's Directory 1970 to 1971 No 106 Oxford Illustrators, publishers Kelly's Directory 1962 to 1970 No 108 Kemp Hall Bindery Kelly's Directory 1967 to 1969 No 106 Loose Covers Kelly's Directory 1964 No 106 Willgard Ltd, domestic electrical appliances Kelly's Directory 1956 to 1960 No 106 Kemp Hall Bindery Kelly's Directory 1952 to 1960 No 106 Your Shop Window Ltd antiques Klly's Directory 1958 No 108 John Gowing jeweller

== ~~1912 - 1937~~ 1938 ==

Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/</ref> and converted it to offices and a book store. == 1932 == Kellys Directory 1932 No 106 was the Palace Picture House and 108 was Horace Pocock, confectioner<ref>Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932</ref>.

== 1890s-1900s ==

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