11–12 Cornmarket
Above: This single shop was built on the site of two narrow old shops at 11 and 12 Cornmarket in 1938/9.
It is inscribed on the corner between the windows with the building date “1938”.
Right: 11 & 12 Cornmarket in c.1905.
On the right is the northernmost section of the Roebuck Inn; in the middle is the whole of No. 11 ( Hamlet & Dulake’s estate agent office); and on the left is most of No.12 (Frederick Margetts’s hatter’s shop).
In the censuses
1841
No. 12 is occupied by the hatter Alexander Scott (40) and PHebe (40), Jane (15), and Benjamin (12). Two independent men aged about 25 also live with them.
1851
No. 11 is occupied by Fredric Telfer (43), a chemist & druggist), and his wife Jemima (38) and son Fredric J. (14). Also living over the shop are his apprentice Isaac Price (19) and one female servant.
No. 12 is occupied by the widow Phebe Scott (49) and her son Benjamin (22): both are described as hatters and hosiers. They have one servant.
1861
No. 11 is occupied by William Perry (26), a chemist & druggist born in Steeple Aston, and his apprentice Medmer Goodwin (36) and one servant.
No. 12 is described as “shop only”.
1881
No. 11 was occupied by Richard Gilman (62), a Bristol-born bootmaker. Living with him was his wife Mary (61) and their five daughters: Mary (28), Rose (26), Sarah (24), Alice (21), and Matilda (17). The family had one servant.
Once again No. 12 is described as uninhabited. Frederick Margetts (51) spent the night at his home at 61 James Street in east Oxford. Born in Sandford and described as a hatter & outfitter employing 8 assistants and 2 boys, he is living with his London-born wife Sarah (54) and his sons Frederick Arthur (17) and Arthur George (14). The family has one female servant.
Occupants of 11 Cornmarket and 12 Cornmarket listed in directories etc. |
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Date |
No. 12 (left) | No. 11 (right) |
1839 |
A. J. Scott, Hatter & Furrier (1839) Phoebe Scott, Hatter
(1846); |
William Brown, Confectioner |
1846 |
Edward Bartlett, Accountant |
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1852 |
F. Telfer, Chemist |
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1861 |
“Shop only” in census |
William Perry |
1867 |
Frederick Margetts |
T. Hughes |
1872–1880 |
Gillman & Son |
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1890 |
Metropolitan & Birmingham Bank Ltd |
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1899 |
William Kemp, Bookbinder |
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1901–1902 |
Lloyds Bank Ltd (no listing in 1902) |
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1911 |
Hamlet & Dulake later Herbert Dulake & Co |
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1914–1936 |
Oxford Clothiers |
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The two shops were now demolished and rebuilt as a single block in 1938,
with the upstairs |
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1945–1973 |
Noel Fashions |
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1976–1982 |
Peter Lord, shoe retailers |
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1990 |
Bally Group shoe retailers |
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2000–present |
Vodafone |
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