Floods in Oxford: November 1894
Above: "The Fox & Hounds", Abingdon Road, Oxford
This postcard shows Abingdon Road in the great Oxford flood of 1894, but was published about ten years after the event. The Fox & Hounds was then on a different site from the present-day pub of that name, and in 1891 its landlord was Charles Turner.
The Fox & Hounds pub remained open throughout, despite being under three feet of water, and here the Morrell's Brewery dray can be seen delivering barrels of beer.
The pub is listed under Cold Arbour in early directories, and not under the Abingdon Road. (This area was considered to be beyond the pale, which is why it was chosen as the site of Oxford's Isolation Hospital.)
This old pub was demolished in the 1920s, and a new Fox & Hounds built on an adjoining site at 279 Abingdon Road. The site of the old pub was a petrol station for many years, and the picture below shows the same scene in the lesser floods of 25 July 2007.
