No. 12: Isola
No. 12 Broad Street dates from the early nineteenth century. It is a Grade II listed building (ref. 1485/173)
During the second world war it was a post office: hence the pillar box that still stands outside
At the time of the 1851 census this building was occupied by the tailor James Price and his wife and his six children, looked after by one servant.
Charles Titian Hawkins had his accountant’s business in the second half of the nineteenth century, but he let the upstairs rooms out, living at Mayfield in Summertown, which he had bought in 1851. Despite being the biggest landowner in Summertown, in 1895 he became bankrupt at the age of 73: it was "one of the most sensational financial disasters known in Oxford", according to the Oxford Times.
In 1881 there were three people renting the upstairs premises (the retired bookseller William Graham, an undergraduate, and a gardener), looked after by two servants.
| Occupants of 12 Broad Street listed in directories |
|
1839, 1841 |
Philip Hawks, Carver, Gilder, & Printseller |
1846, 1852 |
James Price, Tailor & robe maker |
1866–1895 |
Charles Titian Hawkins, Accountant and auditor (later Public Auditor) |
1896–1908 |
Caleb Court-Col, Landscape and architectural photographer |
1909–1923 |
J.E. Elliott & Co.,
Electrical engineers |
1924–1954 |
Shrimpton & Morris, Bootmakers Also Post Office, 1937–1947 |
1956–2002 |
R. Gillman & Son, Bootmakers (later shoes) |
2002 |
Akme Expression ("The strangest bookshop and exhibition ever in Oxford") |
Since 2003 |
Isola |