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Oxford Town Hall is a public building on the street called St Aldate's in central Oxford, England. [1] It is both the seat of Oxford City Council and a venue for public meetings, entertainment and other events. It also includes the Museum of Oxford. Although Oxford is a city with its own charter, the building is referred to as the "Town Hall ...
From 1939, the property was requisitioned by the government for use as a military hospital during World War II. After the war, it became a rehabilitation centre, run by the Red Cross and the Order of St John. [5] In 1953, James Morrell III sold Headington Hill Hall to Oxford City Council. It continued to be used as a rehabilitation centre until ...
Oxford City Council is the local authority for the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. Oxford has had a council since medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974, Oxford has been a non-metropolitan district, with county-level functions in the city provided by Oxfordshire County Council.
The residential estate of Rose Hill is largely to the west of the road of the same name. The road is part of a historic route from Oxford to London via Henley, running parallel to the river Isis (the name of the Thames in Oxford). The centre of Rose Hill estate is the Oval, a large expanse of grass in the centre of a turning circle.
Northway is a suburb in northeast Oxford, England, just inside the Oxford ring road. It is near Marston and the John Radcliffe Hospital. It mainly consists of social housing built by Oxford City Council in the 1950s, though many houses and apartments are now in private ownership. [1] To the southwest is Headley Way and to the northwest is Marsh ...
During the redevelopment, Oxford Archaeology undertook the archaeological investigations on behalf of Oxford City Council. [6] In May 2009 a multi-part sculpture by Diana Bell was set in the square "to commemorate sixty years of exchange" between the cities of Bonn and Oxford. Titled "Knowledge and Understanding" but known locally as "Books ...
Park Town is a small residential area in central North Oxford, a suburb of Oxford, England. It was one of the earliest planned suburban developments in the area and most of the houses are Grade II listed .
The following report in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 15 October 1870 describes the new building: . METHODIST FREE CHURCH, NEW INN HALL STREET [now St Michael's Street]. The congregation at present assembling in the Old Quaker's Chapel have a new Chapel in course of erection in New Inn Hall-street. The site is on that portion of the old city walls whereon stables were lately built, and in ...