History of old shops of Headington

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Corner of New High Street

The two photographs above and below showing the New High Street corner of the London Road
(taken by Jill Slaymaker and June Whitehouse in the 1980s) show how much
parts of Headington shopping centre have changed dramatically even in recent years

Pennies

The shops below each have a separate page giving their history. They are listed in the order in which they were built (although many of them started off as private houses). Follow the pointer at the top of the page to view each of the shops in turn

c.1830s	Mount Pleasant 74–76 London Road
1852	21 Windsor Street
1880	Joseph Skey’s grocer’s shop 39 New High Street (Bateman Street corner)
1888	Rosslyn Villa (now 5 & 6 The Parade, Windmill Road)
1890	The Currills’ shoe shop and grocery shops 299/301 and later 291/293 London Road
1892	Headington Co-op On the corner of Windmill and London Road
1893	West’s Garden Centre 74 Windmill Road
1896	H. E. Berry’s butcher’s shop 82 (formerly 46) Old High Street
c.1896	1–16 Westbourne Terrace, now 107–137 London Road 107: Former police house 113: Baxter’s butcher’s shop 115: See G. H. Williams below 123: Vallis’s baker’s shop 127–131: Ager’s Draper’s shop
c.1903	Dairy in All Saints Road (behind 73 Lime Walk)
1908	G. H. Williams’ bicycle and sweet shops Originally 138/140 London Road, and later 115 London Road
1909	112 and 114 London Road Two old shops between two newer developments
1910	Newsagent/tobacconist shop 14 Windmill Road
1912	Mrs Jeffrey’s butcher’s shop 58 Windmill Road
1916	146, 148, and 148a London Road
1922	Ernest Skey’s grocer’s shop 8 Windmill Road
1923	97 and 99 London Road
1924	93 and 95 London Road
1924	101 London Road
1926	103 London Road
1927	Walker’s Furniture 71 London Road
1924	Fred Grain’s sweet & stationery shop 72A Windmill Road
1920s	Carfax Buildings 1–7 Old High Street
1935	Maypole Dairy / Headington Homewares 3 The Parade, Windmill Road
1938	Fish & chip shop 81 London Road
1956	Lily Crane/Time & Elegance 9A Windmill Road (+ 9 and 11 Windmill Road)
1958	The shops under Holyoake Hall All seven existing shops were once part of the Co-op
1975	Supermarket in Old High Street (including the previous history of the site)
Headington’s old post offices (Old Headington, New Headington, and Quarry)
Headington’s banks

Below: Westbourne Terrace, which runs between Old High Street and Bury Knowle Park,
before it was converted into shops (from Ian Garrett)

Below: London Road in the early 1940s London Road in 1940s

See also “Headington’s shops in 1976” in the “Reminiscences” section

Headington history: Shops