About a hundred postcards of the Headington area were produced in the golden age of the postcard, between 1903 and the First World War, when Headington was still three villages in the open countryside to the east of the city of Oxford. This is just a small selection.

London Road

• London Road near the earlier White Horse inn
• The Britannia Inn
• Former houses between Kennett Road and Windmill Road
• Headington crossroads looking east
• Headington crossroads looking south down Windmill Road
• Shops and houses to the east of Headington crossroads
• Holyoake Terrace (site of present Holyoake Hall)
• Junction with Barton Road, showing new council houses

Old Road and Quarry

• Highfield near Bickerton and Stapleton Roads
• 62 Old Road, near the present Girdlestone Road
• Titup, looking towards Shotover
• Crown & Thistle pub
• Part of Green Road demolished to make way for eastern bypass

New Headington

• North end of Windmill Road
• Windmill Road/Bateman Street junction
• North end of New High Street
• Cinema at north end of New High Street
• Methodist Chapel, New High Street
• South end of New High Street
• Lime Walk/All Saints Road junction

Old Headington and Barton

• Old High Street: Monckton Cottage
• Old High Street: Headington House Lodge
• Old High Street looking north (Baptist Chapel left, Priory right)
• Old High Street looking south (Priory on left)
• St Andrew’s Road: Former vicarage
• St Andrew’s Road: Old cottages
• St Andrew’s Road: east of the church
• Barton Lane: Mather’s Farmhouse
• Barton Village Road

Outlying areas

• Sandhills estate

 

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