OXFORD STREETS

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Old street signs


The oldest surviving street signs of Oxford are easy to identify: they all have hyphens. The sixteen signs below were photographed by David Ludlow in 2004, and appear to date from the 1840s and 1850s.

Alfred Street

Blue Boar Street

Broad Street

Broad Street

Cardigan Street

St Giles Terrace

Holywell Street

St John Street

Osney Town

Plantation Road

Queen's Lane

Turl Street

Walton Street 1

Walton Street 2

Worcester Place

 

York Place

 

The picture below shows two old hyphenated street-signs that have now disappeared:

Brasenose Lane and Turl Street

© Stephanie Jenkins

 

Last updated: 22 January, 2008

22 January, 2008