This photograph shows New High Street looking south in about 1910. Most of the houses have changed little, although the first house on the right now sports a shark

The house nextdoor to the shark (No. 4) was occupied by the prolific Victorian novelist Henrietta Keddie in the 1890s. Despite being a village high street, it looks very quiet in the older picture: this is probably because the focus of New Headington village had already moved to Lime Walk, along with its church.