Park End Street
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Park End Street is a street in central Oxford, England,[1] to the west of the centre of the city, close to the railway station at its western end.
Location
To the east,
History
Park End Street was built in 1769–70 as part of New Road, a new
The street's name is derived from a wharf where coal from Parkend in the Forest of Dean was delivered by barge.[4] From the 1840s, railways took an increasing share of coal traffic. Inland waterways' share of the traffic declined and in 1885 Park End Wharf was redeveloped for other purposes (see below).
Public house
By the early part of the 19th century, a
Breweries
In 1885 Park End Wharf was redeveloped as the site of the Tower Brewery,[5] which its owner F. Phillips then expanded in the 1890s and 1900s to designs by local architect H.J. Tollit.[6]
Before the Tower Brewery was built, the Eagle Brewery was already on a site next to the wharf.[5] Its owner William Miller renamed it the Eagle Steam Brewery to advertise its conversion to steam powered brewing, and then in 1869 sold it to J.N. Weaving.[5] In 1871 Weaving demolished part of the brewery to build a granary and in 1872 he added a three-storey malthouse.[5] Weaving's successor F. Phillips continued to expand the business, including the addition of a new tower brewhouse, chimney and other buildings in 1885 designed by H.J. Tollit.[5] No buildings of either the Eagle or the Tower breweries now survive.[6]
Railway station
From 1851 Oxford Rewley Road railway station was on the corner of Park End Street and Rewley Road. British Railways closed the station in 1951 and its goods yard in 1984. The station was dismantled and moved to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in 1999 to make way for the creation of Frideswide Square and building of Saïd Business School.[7]
Warehouse
Archer, Cowley & Co's Cantay Depositories furniture warehouse was designed by Tollit and built in 1901.[8] Behind its decorative gabled red brick facade, Cantay Depositories has a steel frame and iron columns cast by William Lucy's[8] Eagle Ironworks in Jericho, Oxford. As a warehouse the building had 3,840 square feet (357 m2) of storage space and was segregated into sections by armoured, fire-proof doors that would close automatically in the event of fire.[8] Cantay House is now Oxford Conference Centre,[9] a nightclub, and a retail store.
Marmalade factory
From 1903 until after the
Motor trade
From the end of the
References
- ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ^ a b Rhodes & Munby 2008, p. 10.
- ISBN 0-86299-462-4.
- ^ Anstis 1998, p. not cited.
- ^ a b c d e Woolley 2010, p. 79.
- ^ a b Woolley 2010, p. 82.
- ^ Contact us Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
- ^ a b c d e Woolley 2010, p. 91.
- ^ "Conference Centre Oxford". Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ Read & Manjon 1981, p. 94.
- ^ "The Jam Factory". Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "About My Life My Choice". UK: My Life My Choice. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ a b Anonymous 1952, p. 1.
- ^ Anonymous 1952, p. 2.
Sources
- Anonymous (1952), King's Motors, Always at your Service, Oxford: King's Motors, pp. 1, 2
- Anstis, Ralph (1998) [1982]. "Chapter 8". The Story of Parkend a Forest of Dean Village. Witney: Lightmoor Press. p. not cited. ISBN 1-899889-02-7.
- Read, Jan; Manjon, Maite (1981). The Great British Breakfast. London: ISBN 0-7181-2004-3.
- Rhodes, John; Munby, Julian (2008). Castle, Canal & College: Worcester Street Car Park & related areas, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford Preservation Trust. p. 10.
- Woolley, Liz (2010). "Industrial Architecture in Oxford, 1870 to 1914". Oxoniensia. LXXV. ISSN 0308-5562.