107 London Road
This was the first of the sixteen houses of Westbourne Terrace, built between Old High Street and Bury Knowle Park in the 1890s. The picture below shows the house before the adjoining buildings to the left were added in the 1920s.
The Headington Police Sergeant lived at this corner house with his family from 1899 to 1925. During that period this house was first described as 1 Westbourne Terrace and then as 29 London Road, but when Carfax Buildings were built adjoining it in about 1926 it was treated as being the first building in Old High Street. In 1934 it was given its present number of 107 London Road.
The photograph below dates from the mid-1920s and shows 107 London Road on the right. It was then attached just to the first unit of Carfax Buildings, and together they formed, the Oxfordshire Farmers’ Bacon Factory Ltd. The end of the word “tobacconist” can be seen on the blind of the second unit of Carfax Buildings.
In about 1953 107 London Road took over No. 2 Carfax Buildings as well, and Chancellor’s Estate Agents still occupies the three buildings.
Date |
1 Old High Street |
107 London Road originally |
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2 Carfax Bldgs |
1 Carfax Bldgs |
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1899– |
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–––– | Sergeant of County Police: |
1927– 1929 |
James S. Bowell |
The Oxfordshire Farmers’ |
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Samuel S. Timbs |
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1930 |
Edward W. Corby |
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1935– 1952 |
Wild & Steele |
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1954– 1967 |
Wild & Steele |
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1968 |
Sydney Atkinson |
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1976 |
Part of Loyds retailers |
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1980 |
Wigfall’s |
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1983 |
Dixon’s |
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1989– present |
Chancellor’s Estate Agents |
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