epw024628 ENGLAND (1928). Gloucester Green, Oxford, 1928

I believe this was the former George Street Congregational Church, demolished 1935.

This *might* be the location of the small school run in the 1850's by Sister of Charity, Catherine Fraser, a 30-yr-old Scotswoman. There were only four pupils in the school at the time of the 1851 Census, my great-grandmother Mary Duffield being the youngest at 13yrs. This, I believe, was a charitable foundation for the daughters of poorer people but I don't know how the pupils were chosen; my great-grandmother's family lived in and around Wet Sandford (Sandford on Thames). Whatever the method, the result was that great-grandma had a first-rate education for a girl of her station in Victorian times. She achieved the pinnacle of success when she became a Ladies' Maid and Companion to four spinster sisters in Witney. Here she met great-grandfather....and the rest is history: my history! The Census places the school building between The Greyhound Inn and the last house in Worcester Street before Beaumont Street. The last house in Worcester Street was at that time occupied by a Miss Rachel Sherwood, a 32-yr-old Annuitant. Any comments on the accuracy (or otherwise) of the school's situation would be welcomed.

The site of the city's cattle market. In 1935, after the cattle market had been moved, the western half of Gloucester Green became the site of the city's bus station

Beaumont Street, Oxford, 07/10/2015

1935 Chapel of St George-the-Martyr demolished and replaced by the present Cinema

OLD SCHOOL HOUSE.

Oxford's Boys' High School, at the time (now owned and used by the University)

Just about here was a building which was classed as an 'ancient monument', as of 1947: it is shown as such in Thomas Sharp's fearful 'Oxford Replanned' book of that time. Evidently it wasn't of such architectural value that it couldn't be bulldozed for the building of Nuffield College! But I'd be interested to know what it was...

Greyhound Inn (public house) Worcester St.

this was the city morgue

The pond in Nuffield College Quad as today

This building was Oxford Fire Station

These are stacks of coal that have been unloaded from canal barges

This is the house I was born in 1948 it was demolished in the 1950's and Nuffield College was built there.