News of Broad Street
Pictures
- Continental market in Broad Street, 2008
- Luminox, 15–17 March 2007
- Hook Norton Brewery Dray, October 2005
- European Car-Free Day, September 2005
- Tree felling, August 2005
- Mike Woodin's funeral cortège, July 2004
Oxford Story
The Oxford Story closed on 28 October 2007 after nearly 20 years of operation and having received two million visitors.
- "Oxford Story to close" (2 October 2007)
The plan for Broad Street
Kim Wilkie, a landscape and urban design consultant, undertook a £35,000 study of Broad Street for the Oxford Preservation Trust, with a view to improvements in paving surfaces, lighting, and traffic
- Broad Street (Oxford Preservation Trust)
- Kim Wilkie's leaflet (PDF)
- Alternative plan from Katherine Shock and Anthony Stones
Clarendon Building refurbishment
A total of 45 staff were relocated so that a £1m refurbishment programme to restore the building could be implemented in 2005/6
- "Building not sinking into 'sea of rumour' " (Oxford Mail, 14 February 2005)
Sheldonian Theatre
The Sheldonian Theatre was closed until the beginning of December 2004 for structural repairs to the ceiling
In October 2003 it was named the most uncomfortable arts venue in the UK by listeners to Radio 4's Front Row
- "Hard seating upsets arts lovers" (Radio Oxford)
Recycling
Ten tonnes of rubbish was dumped in Broad Street on Monday 19 July to promote recycling:
- "Waste eyesore 'contains message' " (Oxford Mail, 19 July 2004)
Parking
The 24 parking spaces in the centre of Broad Street (including three for the disabled) have been made into one-hour pay-and-display spaces costing £1.50
Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell's celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2004. The shop at 50 Broad Street opened on 1 January 1870
Christmas lights
Broad Street (west of Turl Street) has had Christmas lights since 2003
New Bodleian Library
The New Bodleian Library is Broad Street's latest listed building
Kettell Hall
The Lavender Garden of Kettell Hall was awarded an Oxford Preservation Trust award in September 2003. Paul Lawrence, Head Gardener of Trinity College, transformed a scruffy area visible from Broad Street
Museum of the History of Science
Links to articles about Broad Street in the Oxford Mail archive
2003:
- "Blackwells enjoys 'cracking' Christmas" (20 January)
- "Designer to investigate Broad Street facelift" (15 February)
- "City streets need trees, says group" (21 April)
- "Council to test 20mph zones" (24 April)
- "Tourism centre moves" (6 June)
- "City to get six more alcohol-free zones" (16 September)
2002:
- "Broad Street improvements to get under way" (25 January)
- "Spurned writer opens shop to taunt university" (27 April)
- "Street celebrates car-free day" (23 September)
- "Students criticise £30,000 gate plan" (9 October)
- "Plaque marks Oxfam pioneer" (21 November)
- "Shops steps into history" (21 November)
2001:
- "Broad Street outcry" (19 January)
- "Traders chalk up OTS victory" (3 February)
- "Martyrs' statue may be moving" (15 February)
- "City tourist office to be moved" (5 April)
- "OTS has cut trade: judge" (9 July)
- "Parking to return to Broad Street" (27 July)
- "Traders' joy at parking u-turn" (28 July)
- "Return to free parking on Broad Street welcomed" (24 August)
- "Oxford's oldest bookshop to close down" (30 November)
The queue of people waiting outside Waterstone's to have Lyra's Oxford
signed
by Philip Pullmann almost reaches Turl Street (November 2003)