Blackhall Road, Oxford

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Coordinates: 51°45′31″N 1°15′31″W / 51.7585°N 1.2585°W / 51.7585; -1.2585
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Dinosaur graffiti in Blackhall Road, Oxford, in October 2006
The same graffiti in July 2019.

Blackhall Road is a road running between Keble Road to the north and Museum Road to the south in central Oxford, England, dating from the late 19th century.[1] It is named after Black Hall, dating from at least 1519, fronting onto St Giles', and now part of St John's College.[2] Houses in the road were leased by St John's College between 1865–75.[3]

Ahrends, Burton and Koralek designed yellow brick buildings on the southern part of Blackhall Road.[4] These include the "Elephant House" at the southern end, nicknamed due to its resemblance to the elephant house at London Zoo.[5]

At the southern end on the west side are houses owned by

Mathematical Institute
.

The historian

D.H. Lawrence, also lived in the road when they met in 1915.[8]

The road includes one of the longest lasting and still extant pieces of outdoor

Keble College, opposite the Department of Statistics building, are two large dinosaurs
in white and blue paint. The caption "REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAUR!" is next to the white dinosaur. By the blue dinosaur, perhaps intended to resemble an alligator, is a riposte "I DID, AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME".

It is thought that the white graffiti, the earlier of the two, was the work of delegates at the Drapers' Conference at Keble in the early 1970s and was a reply to the students of Keble's neighbour St John's College who had formed the St John’s Destroy Keble Society.[9] Close by in Parks Road is the Oxford University Museum of Natural History where a number of fossilized dinosaur skeletons can be seen. There was a hatching-dinosaur-egg addition on the wall for a while but it has disappeared.

References

  1. ISBN 0-333-39917-X
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  2. ^ "No. 21: Part of St John's College". St Giles', Oxford. Oxford History. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  3. ISBN 0-14-071045-0
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  4. ISBN 0-14-071045-0
    . Page 229.
  5. ^ The Elephant House — Keble College (Oxford), Wikimapia.
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-927162-7
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  7. ^ Proceedings of the Classical Association, volumes 26–28. Classical Association, 1929.
  8. ISBN 0-521-28041-9
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  9. ^ "The Keble Dinosaur". 2013. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2015.

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