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Frank Stuart opened Oxford's first cinema, the Electric Theatre, in Castle Street, in 1910. He was the licensee of the Elm Tree pub on the corner of Cowley Road and Jeune Street. Also in 1910 work started to build Stuart's second cinema on land in Jeune Street behind the Elm Tree. It opened on 24 February 1911 as the Oxford Picture Palace. [2]
The Oxford Historic District encompasses the peninsular portion of the town of Oxford, Maryland. Established as the site of a ferry across the Tred Avon River in 1683, the historic portion of the town occupies a peninsula between that river and Town Creek. The town did not experience any significant growth until the late 19th century, which is ...
Mansfield Road is a road in central Oxford, England. [1] [2] It runs north-south with two of Oxford University's colleges on it, Mansfield College and Harris Manchester College, and Queen Elizabeth House which houses the Oxford Department of International Development. To the north is South Parks Road and the University's main Science Area.
St John the Evangelist Church is a Catholic church in the hamlet, on the east side of the road. On the same side there is a house, also called Heron's Ghyll but also known as Buxted Hall, that was purchased by the poet Coventry Patmore in 1866; the house was occupied by Temple Grove School , a preparatory school, from 1935 until the school's ...
Linton Road crosses the road east-west about halfway along. St Andrew's Church, [1] established in 1907, is on the southeast corner of the junction with Linton Road. Just to the north is Northmoor Place, a row of newer terrace houses. Most of the houses in Northmoor Road are substantial detached residences, built between 1899 and 1930. [2]
The Andrew Wiles Building on Woodstock Road, viewed from St Anne's College Belsyre Court, a 1936 Grade II listed apartment block, on Woodstock Road. Woodstock Road is a major road in Oxford , England, running from St Giles' in the south, north towards Woodstock through the leafy suburb of North Oxford . [ 1 ]
Blackhall Road is a road running between Keble Road to the north and Museum Road to the south in central Oxford, England, dating from the late 19th century. [1] It is named after Black Hall, dating from at least 1519, fronting onto St Giles', and now part of St John's College. [2] Houses in the road were leased by St John's College between 1865 ...
Oxpens Road also provides access to major car parks for the centre of Oxford, including the Westgate Shopping Centre. A redeveloped and greatly expanded shopping centre opened in 2017, but there have been concerns over the imposing and largely windowless wall at the southwest of the redevelopment on Oxpens Road by conservationists, including ...