No. 18: Flaggs
No. 18 on the left of this pair of shops is part of the same building as No. 17 next door, and they are jointly Grade II listed (ref. 1485/691). The present building dates from c.1897.
For over seventy years in the twentieth century, the building was occupied by Hunt’s office services, which started business at 19 next door in 1903.
At the time of the 1841 census, the former building at No. 18 was occupied by John Cripps, a confectioner. Ten years later he was dead, and his widow, Mary Cripps, aged 51, is described as the Confectioner. Her five sons (two of them "confectioner’s assistants") live with her, and they have one house servant. She is still there at the time of the 1861 census, when her son John is also described as a "fruiterer and confectioner" and her youngest son is the "confectioner’s assistant".
Occupants of 18 Broad Street listed in directories |
|
1823, 1830 |
Fletcher & Cripps |
1839 |
John Cripps |
1852–1876 |
Mary (Mrs A.) Cripps |
1880–1896 |
Allen & Young |
1896– 1898 |
Shop being rebuilt |
1899–1902 |
Miss S.E. Berrill, Milliner |
1904 |
Smith & Co: The Creamery |
1905–1908 |
Edgar William Dickeson, Boot maker |
1910–1980+ |
Hunt’s 1934–1949: William Hunt, Typewriter dealer, stationer, copying
office 1952–1954: The Oxford Copying Office (Hunt’s (Oxford) Ltd) 1956–1960: Hunt’s (Oxford) Ltd, Typewriter dealers, stationers, & copying office 1962–1964: Hunt’s (Oxford) Ltd., Stationers & artists' materials, and Typewriting Bureau 1970–1976: Hunt’s Typewriting Bureau, Typewriter dealers & Stationers, Copying office |
1980s–1990s |
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By 1996 to present |
Flaggs, The College Store |