127: Starbuck’s
No. 127 is on the left hand-side of this building, which was constructed in 1898. Wheatsheaf Passage runs down the middle of the building.
The Wheatsheaf is reached by the passage down the centre of the building, and the shop on the right is today numbered 129.
Jackson’s Oxford Journal for 16 October 1897 (p. 6d) records that Kingerlee were to build new business premises and warehouses on this site, with a new passage to the Wheatsheaf in the middle.
In 1837 Henry Cooke the printer started to publish the Oxford City & County Chronicle (as the Oxford Chronicle and Berks & Bucks Gazette was first known) at the former shop here (see No. 119).
The number 128 was sometimes given to this shop, sometimes to the Wheatsheaf, and sometimes to 129 next door. It is not used today, with the result that No. 127 is followed by No. 129.
The earlier pair of shops on this site were demolished (along with the original Wheatsheaf Passage) in 1897. They can be seen in the centre of the drawing below, which was engraved by Orlando Jewitt 1834.
| Occupiers of 127 High
Street Grey background = former building on this site, now demolished | |
| By 1830- 1834+ |
Austin Fussell Ironmonger |
| 1846 | Oxford Chronicle Office |
| 1861–1875 | Margetts
& Eyles Carvers & Decorators (Oxford Chronicle office behind) |
| 1876 | Vacant |
| 1880 | W.
Gerring Secondhand and new bookseller |
| 1882–1887 | Vacant |
| 1889–1894 | William
Henry Gee New and secondhand bookseller |
| 1895–7 | Vacant (with Joseph Vincent printer behind) |
| 1899–1925 | Purnell,
Phipps & Purnell Tailors, robe makers, hosiers, hatters, shirt makers, outfitters |
| 1925–1952 | Gill
& Co. Ironmongers, heating engineers, & plumbers |
| 1954–1975 | Shoe
retailers: J. Sears & Co. Ltd., Bootmakers (1954–1956) True-Form (1958–1968) Lilley & Skinner (1970–1975) |
| 1976–1980+ | British School of Motoring |
| By 1993–1995+ | National & Provincial Building Society |
| 1999–present | Starbucks Coffee |