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The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire service serving the county of Oxfordshire, England. [1] It is predominantly an on-call fire service, although also has whole-time support. Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters is in Kidlington, Oxford, Oxfordshire. This is also the location of the fire service workshops.
Beaver House, on the corner of Rewley Road and Hythe Bridge Street, was erected in 1971–72, designed by the Oxford Architects Partnership. [4] [5] It is clad in reeded concrete with a glass curtain wall facing Hythe Bridge Street. Rewley Road fire station [6] is on the eastern side of the road, opposite the Said Business School.
Foundation stone. Meanwhile, an early fire station had been established by the newly formed volunteer fire brigade in New Inn Hall Street in 1874. [11] However, in late 1893, the corn traders began to agitate for a new corn exchange, and council leaders saw this as an opportunity to commission a combined corn exchange and fire station complex.
By 1974, the fire station had moved to Rewley Road and its former building had been converted to a community arts centre (Arts at the Old Fire Station) run by the charity Oxford Area Arts Council and used occasionally by Anvil Productions, the Oxford Playhouse Company, for rehearsals. [5] The present New Theatre was built in 1933. It is the ...
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[1] [2] Many theatrical performances have taken place in the venue which for much of its early life was known as the "Old Fire Station Theatre". [3] The homelessness charity, Crisis Skylight Oxford, has shared the space, co-located with Arts at the Old Fire Station which manages the venue, since 2011. [4]
The new location is a purpose-built fire station; in 1952, it was operated by the Oxford County Fire Brigade but is now staffed by retained firefighters of the Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. [71] Deddington public library, which used to be the court house and prison
Until 1889 Grandpont was in Berkshire, although it was a tithing of the parish of St Aldate's, Oxford. The area was added to the municipal borough of Oxford and to Oxfordshire in 1889. [5] The Church of England parish church of Saint Matthew, Grandpont was built in 1890, [6] presumably as a chapel of ease.