Oxford History

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@ClarkeMicah @jiver222 The formal Proclamation was at St James’s Palace on Sat 10 September, then in Cardiff, Belfast, and Edinburgh at 12 noon on Sun 11 September, and in other cities and towns (including Oxford) an hour later. More information about Oxford Proclamations here: oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/governm…

.@jiver222 The monarch is proclaimed in dozens of towns and cities.

@angrypiln How are Sun readers going to cope with the fact that Prince William (if he retains his own name) will be GvR ("Guilelmus V Rex") when he becomes King?

@PriceLaurence @FiendishFu @william_whyte @UniofOxford @TrinityOxford The 1896 cabmen's shelter in St Giles' still exists, latterly as a takeaway oxfordhistory.org.uk/stgiles/histor…

@OxonHistory @FiendishFu @william_whyte @UniofOxford @TrinityOxford A fascinating little bit of history- thankyou!

From today's @UniofOxford Gazette: @TrinityOxford when T G Jackson's buildings (and gates) were new. The cottages -- scheduled for demolition -- were saved by an intervention from William Morris.

@FiendishFu @PriceLaurence @william_whyte @UniofOxford @TrinityOxford This is the Broad Street cabmen’s shelter, erected in 1885 after a campaign by Sarah Acland, who paid for a daily newspaper and put books in the lockers. There were also facilities for making tea. More information here: oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/history/…

@PriceLaurence @william_whyte @UniofOxford @TrinityOxford Knowing the Victorian-era University I strongly suspect that it's the potting shed from the Master's Garden at Balliol, fitted with wheels and stolen overnight by some enterprising Trinity undergraduates.

@Emmet_Oleary I would guess that the contractors were told to put up a barrier around the war memorial in St Giles' so that it could be cleaned in time for Remembrance Sunday, and they thought this was it....

@william_whyte Here's a similar scene today (too hard to catch it exactly on Google StreetView without a bus getting in the way). The Victoria Fountain echoes the shape of the old toll-house in the 1870 image goo.gl/maps/g7AhSbaFs…

A wonderful image of the Plain in 1870 from today's Oxford University Gazette

@Ravilious2 @sourcephoto @JamesRavilious @beaford The Oxfordshire History Centre/Mark Lawrence are actually @OxHist, but I am not complaining as I have acquired a few photographer followers!

I really enjoyed talking to Mark Lawrence of @OxonHistory about local photography archives for the latest edition of @sourcephoto - Helen Muspratt, Cyril Arapoff, Henry Taunt and more (plus @JamesRavilious and @beaford of course). #photography #photohist #oxford #devon

@william_whyte Some of the dates are too high up: I only spotted this inscription on the front of the present Ruskin School of Art this week. (I am sure you have seen it, as it relates to T. G. Jackson.) I have stuck it together for convenience

If only every building were so helpfully labelled

@drmikefraser And (thanks to your help) I have found an almost identical article in the Observer of Sunday 5 May 1912:

@OxonHistory Reproduced in the Western Times, Monday, 6 May 1912.

The builder Thomas Kingerlee (Mayor of Oxford in 1911/12) wanted to put a garden in Broad Street and in May 1912 this cabmen’s shelter was demolished in readiness, but local traders as well as the displaced cabmen were against it, and the idea was abandoned

@drmikefraser Thanks: that's very interesting. I never expected there would be a report in a newspaper from as far away as Exeter.

@heritage_lizzie @william_whyte @hilda_beastoxf @HertfordCollege That was also the first purpose-built home (1906–1939) of Milham Ford School, but apparently the building was in a bad way

@william_whyte @hilda_beastoxf @HertfordCollege Sad to see the lovely riverside building at Hilda’s gone though with something much less lovely in its place.

The view from rooms ⁦@hilda_beastoxf⁩ and ⁦@HertfordCollege⁩ — they have some very lucky students!

Apparently there is a photograph showing the protest by Oxford's cabmen against the idea of a Cabmen's Garden in the Oxford Journal Illustrated of 8 May 1912 (p. 14). There is more information about the cabmen's shelter in Broad Street here oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/history/…

A new cabmen’s shelter with a pointed roof was erected, and this survived into at least the 1920s: it can just be seen here on the left, when cars were starting to predominate

@AnthonyGReddie @Oxford1871 @RegentsOx @CEJoynes @UniofOxford @PaulGWeller But hadn't the Oxford University Act of 1854 already opened up the University to non-Anglicans *undergraduates*? The Universities Test Act of 1871 built on this and opened up professorships and fellowships to non-Anglicans as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Un…

@OxfdPedestrians @OxfordCity @OxfordshireCC @EnvAgency @theriverstrust The plaque on the first one says that the Environment Agency restored it in 1997, which implies that they are responsible for it. It was put up by public subscription in 1865. More information here: oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/inscri…

anyone know who owns these wheelchair inaccessible bridges. Castle mill and behind boatyard, oxford @OxfordCity @OxfordshireCC @EnvAgency @theriverstrust all deny ownership Grid refs SP503065 and SP497074

@william_whyte This correspondent writing in Jackson’s Oxford Journal of 13 May 1786 was very impressed with the Learned Pig’s “astonishing Sagacity”.

The “Amazing Pig of Knowledge” that came to Oxford in 1786.

John Everett Millais, aged 23, testifies here as to the validity of the will of George Vandeput Drury of Shotover House, stating that Drury had commissioned from him a picture showing his family quarrelling over his will (Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 24 July 1852)

This fishmonger advertising in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 24 December 1796 sold some exotic food items from his shop in the High