South end of New High Street, Headington
The postcard above looks towards the London Road from the south end of New High Street, where the houses were poorer and the street narrower than the north end. The bushes on the right mark the position of the present All Saints Church Hall.
The shop in the older photograph (now a house, numbered 50) is inscribed "Headington Cash Drapery Stores": this operated from 1901 to 1917, when it became a sweet shop. The four adjoining houses (now numbered 48, 46, 44, and 42 respectively) were known in the nineteenth century as Southill Cottages and were built in the 1860s. The Methodist Chapel and the grocer’s shop can be seen in the distance.