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History of some of Headington’s old shops


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Corner of New High Street
The above photograph by Jill Slaymaker is an example of how much parts of
Headington shopping centre have changed dramatically even in recent years

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)

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

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

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

© Stephanie Jenkins

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Last updated: 24 October, 2011