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The district encompasses 201 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Oxford. It includes buildings dating from the early-19th century through the 1930s and notable examples of Greek Revival and Late Victorian style architecture.
The Manor Ground off London Road in Headington. Oxford United were formed as Headington F.C. in 1893, [13] adding the suffix United in 1911 after merging with Headington Quarry. Until 2001 their home ground was the Manor Ground, which had its main entrance on London Road. [14] In 2001 Oxford United moved to the Kassam Stadium near Blackbird ...
Old Road is a long street in Headington, east Oxford, England, extending into Oxfordshire as a road east of Oxford, to Littleworth near Wheatley. [2] It is part of the main old road between Oxford and London until the late 18th century, [3] passing over Shotover Hill. [4] Nowadays it crosses the Oxford Ring Road with a bridge.
A view up Headington Hill along Headington Road, with an Oxford Park&Ride bus. Headington Hill section on Headington Community website; Located on Headington Road is the Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial, dedicated to Oxford residents who joined the International Brigades during the Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial and died fighting against fascist forces backed by Hitler and Mussolini.
The Headington Shark (proper name Untitled 1986) is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art , put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.
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The Old Road Campus is a University of Oxford site south of Old Road, in Headington, east Oxford, England. The Churchill Hospital , a teaching hospital managed by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , is to the south.
John Buckley (born 1945 in Leeds, England) [1] is an English sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture "Untitled 1986", better known as "the Shark House" or "The Headington Shark" in Headington, a suburb of Oxford. Buckley went to sculpture classes in the evenings when studying for his O-levels in a technical college.