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Changes in shops, 1973 to present


South side: Carfax to St Ebbe's Street

No.

1973

2008

2021

2026

1

Part of Marygold House which replaced 1, 2, & 3 Queen Street

Barclays Bank 1970–1985
Abbey National Building Society (now renamed Santander Bank) 1985–present.
The building was sold by the City Council to the Abbey National Building Society in 1988

2

3

4

True Form,
Shoe dealers

Swarovski

Metrobank

5

Paige, gowns

EAT.

6

Ferguson, Kemp & Co. solicitors

Cancer Information
association

Jones shoes
(to 2017+)

Yi Fang
bubble tea

Whittards Tea

7

Kirner Bros, Watch makers, Jewellers 
& silversmiths

7A: Golden Scissors
Ladies’ hairdressers

Optical Express &
The Dental Clinic

The White Company

8

Dixon Cameras Ltd

9

John Lane, menswear

Dorothy Perkins

Vacant
(was Flight Centre)

Ryman's

10

It’s 4U, boutique

11

K Shoe Shop

Albert P. Gray Ltd, ophthalmic opticians

William John Vernon
and
Morgan-Griffiths
, Solicitors

Top Shop

(Primark in 2017)

Fat Face

(with Bravissimo upstairs)

12

No listing
(later Lotus Shoes)

13

Oxford & Swindon
Co-operative
Society Ltd
,
Outfitters

Marks & Spencer PLC

14

15

16

Site of the alleyway
through the Co-op
?

17

Oxford & Swindon
Co-operative
Society Ltd
, Outfitters

18

Halford’s Ltd
Cycle makers

19

Hepworth’s Ltd
Tailors

Nationwide
Building Society

Vacant
(was Hotter Shoes)

Coventry Building Society

20a

Civic Stores Ltd

British Home Stores

Top Shop/Top Man

Waterstone's

21

Thornton’s,
Confectioners

22

Greetings Shop, g
Greetings cards

23

City Chambers

City Treasurer
City of Oxford Education Committee
Oxford Council of Social Services

Halifax Building Society

24

25

26

North side: New Inn Hall Street to Carfax

27

Freeman, Hardy
& Willis Ltd

Shoe dealers

Side of
Beaverbrooks
Jewellers

28

Alkit Ltd, tailors and
R. A. S. Wood & Co, solicitor

Essential
(Accessorize prior to 2019)

29

Oxonian Press Ltd, printers

Levi Strauss & Co

Vacant
(was Vape Store)

Fone World

30

Curry’s Ltd, cycles

Early Learning Centre

Costa Coffee

31

Crown Wallpapers
and Gridiron Club

East

Vision Express

32

Peter Robinson, c
Costumier

33

William Timpson Ltd,
shoe dealers

Miss Selfridge

Specsavers

34

Kam Hong Restaurant
and
La Cantina Restaurant

Number no longer used: the central entrance to this 1888 building
is shared between the shops on each side

35

A. C. Millett & Co., outfitters

Figaro’s Hairdressers and
Oxford Architects Partnership

Monsoon

Holland & Barrett

36

John Collier, tailors

Crawford Caterers Ltd
Restaurant

Evans ladies’ wear

Maxwell’s Restaurant  upstairs

Paperchase

Popeyes

37

38

W. Barratt & Co Ltd, Shoe retailers

Ryman's

Boarded up: becoming
part of Clarendon Square

 

39

No listing (39 & 40 together
were later Halford’s)

French Connection
to at least 2017

The Works

40

Boots the Chemist Ltd

Entrance to 
Clarendon Centre

plus side of Tie Rack

Entrance to 
Clarendon Centre

plus side of
 Cornish Kitchen

41

No listing
(Later Boots the Chemist)

42
&
43

Snob, boutique

 

43A: J. H. Dewhurst Ltd
Butchers

Millett’s

Swarovski

44

Saxone Ltd
Shoe dealers

USC

Nationwide

45
Tower
House

A. Ballard Ltd
Watch makers

Crabtree & Evelyn
to at least 2017

Burrows & Hare
(to 2020)

Montezuma's Chocolate

The parishes of Queen Street

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