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77: 204: 396: 196: 370: 882: 22: 431:, the son of the first city librarian, in 1879. The shop was initially only 12 feet square, but quickly grew to include space upstairs, in the cellar, and neighbouring shops. It is now Oxford's leading bookshop, with other specialist branches elsewhere in Broad Street and Oxford. 222:, which was built in AD 911. It is a wide street, formerly called Horsemonger Street because it was Oxford's horse market. The street's one remaining pub, a 16th or 17th-century timber-framed building next to Blackwell's bookshop, is appropriately called the White Horse. 148:
centre of the University, since most academic buildings in the centre of Oxford are owned by individual (and autonomous) colleges rather than the University itself.
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in Oxford, was established in 1738, and traded at the same location on the south side of Broad Street opposite Balliol College until its closure in 2020.
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plots, on which buyers built houses and later shops. Most of the wall beside Broad Street was dismantled to reuse its stone, but one
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business in Boxall's Yard, behind the premises. The lease expired in 1894 and he was forced to file for bankruptcy.
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had made the walls obsolete, so the city divided the town ditch on the south side of Broad Street into a row of
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Pillar outside the Clarendon building at the junction of Broad Street and Catte Street
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marking the location of the martyrs' execution at the western end of Broad Street.
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Blue plaque commemorating Cecil Jackson-Cole outside the first Oxfam shop
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Historical view of Broad Street looking east towards (left to right) the
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buildings at the eastern end of the street. These buildings form the
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had its premises and bookshop at 29 Broad Street in the former
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The street developed alongside the town ditch in front of the
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and the original Ashmolean building became offices for the
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bookshop, on the north side of the street, was founded by
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and is now formally at the northern end of the adjoining
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Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
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Clarendon Building
Sheldonian Theatre
Old Ashmolean Building
Oxford
England
bookshops
Blackwell's
University of Oxford

Weston Library
Clarendon Building
Indian Institute
Catte Street
Balliol College
Trinity College
Exeter College
Turl Street
Museum of the History of Science
Ashmolean Museum
Clarendon Building
Sheldonian Theatre
Weston Library
Bodleian Library
Oxford University
George Street
Magdalen Street
Cornmarket Street
Holywell Street
Parks Road

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