19: Sprint Sandwiches
The group of five shops numbered 19–23 High Street dates from the late eighteenth century. The upstairs rooms were converted to accommodation for Brasenose College in about 1930.
No. 19 is on the far left of the group and is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/321).
At the time of the 1851 census, Henry Hands, the jeweller & watchmaker at these premises, lived over the shop with his wife and baby son, and two servants.
In 1881, Mary, Sarah, and Laura French, three spinsters born in Iffley, lived upstairs and worked here as milliners and dressmakers.
| Occupiers of 19 High Street | |
| 1839, 1846 | Joseph Steele & Co. Silversmith |
| 1851 |
Henry Hands |
| 1852 |
Henry Carter |
| 1861–1869 | George
W. Webb Gun maker |
| 1871 | R.
R. Rowell Watchmaker & jeweller [jointly at No. 20] |
| 1872–1917 | Misses
French [Miss L. E. French from 1890] Milliners, dressmakers, & fancy repository Upstairs from 1898: Mid-Oxon Conservative Registration Office |
| 1918–1943 | Pullars
of Perth Dye Works Ltd Dyers & cleaners |
| 1945–1966 | Eastman
Ltd Dyers & cleaners |
| 1967–1975 | Bollom
Ltd Dyer’s & cleaners |
| 1976–1980 | Mabs Boutique |
| c.1989–1991 | STA Travel |
| 1991–1995 | ? |
| 1995–present |
Harvey’s
Express Sandwich takeaway renamed Sprint in 2003 |