Old shops of Headington

Follow this pointer to view each former shop in turn

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 respectively in the 1980s) show how much
parts of Headington shopping centre have changed dramatically even in recent years

Pennies
Pennies, Headington Sports, the Sewing & Knitting Machine Centre, ?, and the Oxford Video Club

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 (now a hotel) 74–76 London Road
1852	21 Windsor Street (now residential)
1880	Shop at 39 New High Street/corner of Bateman Street (now residential) Shop at 24 New High Street (now residential)
1888	Rosslyn Villa 5 & 6 The Parade, Windmill Road
1890	The Currills’ shoe shop and grocery shops 299/301 and later 291/293 London Road
1892	The original Headington Co-op On the corner of Windmill and London Road
1893	West’s Garden Centre (now residential) 74 Windmill Road
1896	H. E. Berry’s butcher’s shop (now residential) 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): now demolished
1908	G. H. Williams’ bicycle and sweet shops Originally 138/140 London Road (now rebuilt), 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
1910	Grocer's shop at 107 Windmill Road (in “Reminiscences” section)
1912	Mrs Jeffrey’s butcher’s shop (now residential) 58 Windmill Road
1915	Headington's original post office (now rebuilt as Victory House) 116–120 London 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
1926	Group of shops on London Road just to west of Lime Walk
1935	Maypole Dairy / Headington Homewares 3 The Parade, Windmill Road
1938	Former fish & chip shop (now rebuilt as Scott Fraser) 81 London Road
1956	Lily Crane/Time & Elegance (now Sandra Homewood Funerals) 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	The Supermarket in Old High Street (now Waitrose) (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