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The Bear public house, on the corner of Blue Boar Street and Alfred Street. Blue Boar Street is a narrow historic street running between St Aldate's to the west and the southern end of Alfred Street to the east, in central Oxford, England. [1] It is located just north of Christ Church. At the western end is the Museum of Oxford and the Town ...
from 1750: Royal Horse Guards Blue On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels' names, but by their "number or rank". Feb 1750 – Aug 1750: Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (from Lennox's or Richmond's Regiment)
The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board [1] established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner, then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles, Chairman of the Oxford Civic Society. The Board is an autonomous voluntary body whose members are drawn from cultural organisations and local government across the county.
Another resident was Sir Martin Wood, who in 1959 set up his company, Oxford Instruments, in his garden shed at his house in Northmoor Road. [10] Oxford Instruments, the first significant spin-out company from the University of Oxford , made the first superconducting magnets for MRI scanners and became a leader in medical technology.
The Blue Eye is a 2001 children's adventure book by author Roderick Hunt and illustrator Alex Brychta that is part of the Oxford Reading Tree series. The book depicts the travels of two children, Biff and Wilf, in an unnamed Middle Eastern country as they help the princess Aisha regain a valuable stone called the Blue Eye.
Beaumont Palace in 1785 1800 sketch of the ruins, showing the inside of the forebuilding above The plaque on Beaumont Street near the site of Beaumont Palace. Beaumont Palace, built outside the north gate of Oxford, was intended by Henry I about 1130 to serve as a royal palace conveniently close to the royal hunting-lodge at Woodstock (now part of the park of Blenheim Palace).
Oxford Brookes University Boat Club (known as Brookes especially verbally and as OBUBC in formal print) is the rowing club of Oxford Brookes University, England.Its large base is on the longest reach of the non-tidal parts of the Thames, [2] at Wallingford, in Oxfordshire – about 6 miles (10 km) of easily rowable, little-congested river.
Blue Boar Quadrangle was built on the site of an old car park and garages, next to the narrow, high-walled Blue Boar Street. [1] The quadrangle was designed so that the top floor penthouses provide a broken, set-back series of horizontal planes that help to reduce the scale of the development seen from the street and is constructed almost entirely of characteristic Portland Whitbed and Roach ...