Table of Contents
Series Editor's Introduction 8
Introduction 11
Central
Station 16
Ghost-Station 18
Industrial Oxford 20
Plaque over Plaque 22
Frideswide Square 24
Street of Wheels 26
Becket Street, St Thomas the Martyr, Floating Chapel 27
The Brewing Quarter 31
Woodin's Way 33
Oxford Prison, 'A Pound for a Mound' 35
The West Gate and the Westgate 36
The Oxford Crane Ballet 40
The Ghost of St Ebbe's 42
Progress and 'Progress' 45
Carfax 46
Five Pubs and a Hardware Shop 48
High Street 50
The Covered Market 51
Theodora and Adriaan 54
Cornmarket 54
RIP Boswells, 1738-2020 55
Martyrs' Memorial: The Death of the Traditional Wait 57
Magdalen Street, The Randolph and The Morse Bar 59
Umberto Eco, Inspector Morse and the College Credit Card 61
Broad Street: Extras in the Film of Ourselves 62
East
Magdalen Bridge 68
The Plain Roundabout 69
Doris, Olive and Give: A Cowley Road Story 71
Bartlemas Leper's Chapel and The Excelsior Café 75
Magdalen Road 78
The Warneford 82
South Park: Dreaming Spikes 84
Warneford Meadow and Hospitopolis 84
Lye Valley and The Slade 85
Horspath Driftway 86
Plant Oxford and the Mini 87
Nuffield Obelisk 88
Industrial Action 90
Blackbird Leys to Garsington: the Two Englands 91
Rose Hill Cemetery, Henry Taunt, Church Cowley 93
Church Cowley to Templars Square: Betjeman to Bauhaus 95
Templars Square 97
Headington Quarry 99
'The Other Within' 100
C.S. Lewis, Risinghurst, The Kilns 102
The Manor Ground: Oxford's Missing Centre 103
Headington Shark 104
Headington Roundabout and the Subways 105
Headington Hill House: Oedipus at Home 106
Littlemore: Boundaries 108
Cardinal Newman 109
Badly-Sited Benches 110
A Tale of Two Asylums 111
Rose Hill: Late Omens 112
Pevsner and Prefabs 115
Nature Reserves and Rubbish Dumps 117
North
St Giles 124
Not Another F**ing Elf 125
Dinosaurs and Dodos 127
Pitt Rivers and Uncomfortable Oxford 130
Street Shrine 132
University Parks, Mesopotamia, Parson's Pleasure 133
S.L.O.A.P. 134
SLOAP II 136
New Marston 138
Lost Then Found 140
Northway 140
Saxon Way, Dunstan Road, Headington Cemetery 143
Old Marston 144
The Cutteslowe Walls 146
Tarmac Scar 147
Charity Shop Double 148
Summertown 149
Life Expectancy: OX2 to OX4 151
Iris Murdoch and John Bayley: A North Oxford Story 152
Wolvercote via Port Meadow 153
Jericho 155
Mount Place, Harcourt Arms, St Sepulchre's 157
University Parks, Norham Road, Traffic Lights 162
West
Off the Map 166
A Wrong Turn: Botley 166
Botley Road: The Approach 170
Osney 'Town': A Swyver's View 170
Seven Bridges Road and Osney Electricity Station 171
Little GIFs of the Past 173
The Watermans, The Punter and The Bargemans 173
Bridge Street: the hands in the window 175
Osney Lock and Osney Marina 177
Osney Mead Industrial Estate 179
The Flit of a Butterfly 182
Electric Avenue, Oatlands, Willow Walk 184
'Literary Giants Tried Building a Road' 186
Botley interchange 189
Westminster College 190
'Botley Twinned with Fukushima!' 193
Cumnor Hill and the Scholar-Gipsy 195
Botley Cemetery 197
Curtis Industrial Estate and The Tap Social 199
Seacourt Tower and Ghost Bike 201
Retail Park Reverie 202
Ice-rink, Cinema, Channel Tunnel 203
Binsey 204
Binsey Poplars 207
Allotments 207
South
Oxford Town Hall 212
Thresholds: St Aldate's 215
Thames Valley Police and the Law Courts 217
Broad Walk and Christ Church Meadow Replanned 219
'Christ Church Mall' 221
Head of the River and Salter's Boatyard 223
Folly Bridge Island 224
The Undersides of Many Bridges 227
Oxpens and the Friar's Quarter from the South 229
Grandpont Station 235
Plaque to Plaque 237
Meadows, Meads and Commons 239
The Lido, The Lake and The Devil's Backbone 242
Water Everywhere 244
Little Portugal 246
Gas and Geist 247
Station Coda 248
Works Consulted 250
Online Resources 252
The Photographs 254
Acknowledgements 257
The Author 258
Index 259
