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A History of the County of Oxford
… been in that position by 1789. 89 Bampton House off Bushey Row, in its own grounds, is a substantial square house of the … on the east, owned in 1821 by a maltster, a grocer, and a butcher, 6 were rebuilt later in the century. A long, low … house to its west, occupied successively by a butcher and farmer, by the mercer and haberdasher Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or watch-makers, 52 while in 1778 the stock of a bankrupt butcher, dealer and chapman included millinery, haberdashery, … Cottage on High Street and a nearby shop on Bushey Row, was established by 1861 when it employed 4 assistants … shops and houses in the earlier 19th century, 70 and the butcher Henry Taylor (d. 1854), whose family continued as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lanes was established by the later Middle Ages. Bushey Row, formerly New Inn Lane from a 19th-century public house … century, 31 but as the east end of High Street near Bushey Row was called Town (or Down) End in the 17th century, 32 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Such building was undertaken speculatively. Constitution Row on the Broughton Road, for example, was built in 1847 by … of projects by the Gillett family. By 1849 Constitution Row was the address of no less than seven laundresses, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 229 and it probably stood on the north side either of Butcher Row or of High Street near its east end. In 1441 tenements … borough accountant, a solicitor, a woollendraper, a pork-butcher, and the two partners in a large High Street grocery …
A History of the County of Oxford
… listed in a rental of 1441; there were 19 in the northern row and 7 (formerly 17) in the southern, and they probably … certainly in 1438 one of them was described as 'one butcher's stall situated in the south row of stalls of the … Banbury butchers', 244 and they were probably the Flesh Shambles ( Fleshamels) referred to in 1492, 1549, and 1586. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a soldier for a breach of the peace and so sparked off a row which was carried as far as the House of Lords, where … known theatre, called Davenport, was over the Butchers' Shambles. Before 1832 it was reconstructed by James Hill in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a reference in 16845 to the Bridge house in the Shambles. 85 By the early 19th century the rent was c. 70 and … made by-laws in 1564 for cleansing the streets, the shambles, and the Cuttle brook, for the use of official … of a pest-house, 266 and a cottage in Constitution Row called the Pest House 267 was probably the outcome. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… block of buildings lying between the later High Street and Butcher's Row, and the other properties granted by Hugh of Avalon were … cross, roofed with slate, which stood at the junction of Butcher's Row with High Street. 75 It is first mentioned in …