Park End Street

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View looking east down Park End Street with Nuffield College and its spire in the distance.
Car park to the north of the eastern end of Park End Street. This area used to be the basin at the end of the Oxford Canal.
View south from the bridge on Park End Street of the Castle Mill Stream, a branch of the River Thames.

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,

Hollybush Row
leads south.

History

Park End Street was built in 1769–70 as part of New Road, a new

Pacey's Bridge was built to carry the eastern part of Park End Street across Castle Mill Stream,[2][3] which is part of the River Thames
.

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

George III. The pub is currently called Lighthouse
after being refurbished in 2014.

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

listed building.[8] It is now called "The Jam Factory" and houses an arts centre, restaurant, and bar.[11] "The Jam Factory" also houses Guardian Award-winning[citation needed] charity, "My Life My Choice" run by and for people with learning disabilities.[12]

Motor trade

From the end of the

Royal Oxford Hotel
next door. The bespoke etched glass panels depicting 30's motoring scenes which were above Kings main showroom windows were saved and are now on display in Bealieu Motor Museum. H.F. Temple was another motorcycle dealer in the 1940s/50s; their premises were situated at 46 Park End Street and also 69
BSA C11G and C12 and is listed in the 1956 BSA C12 Owners handbook as being the only BSA
dealer in the city*. (*Source from the 1956 BSA C12 Owners handbook, listing all addresses/suppliers in the UK at this time). Eyles and Coxeter was another motor dealer in Park End Street in the sixties, they were sited alongside Lower Fisher Row, currently the site of Sushimania, their workshops stretched way down alongside Lower Fisher Row, in the showroom alongside, catering for the 'county' set, they sold Rover, Jaguar, Land Rover and Rice horse boxes. All but one of the motor traders have now moved to premises further from central Oxford. Hartwell's former premises are now a branch of Office Outlet, formerly
Kwik-Fit
.

References

  1. ISBN 0-333-39917-X
    .
  2. ^ a b Rhodes & Munby 2008, p. 10.
  3. ISBN 0-86299-462-4
    .
  4. ^ Anstis 1998, p. not cited.
  5. ^ a b c d e Woolley 2010, p. 79.
  6. ^ a b Woolley 2010, p. 82.
  7. ^ Contact us Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  8. ^ a b c d e Woolley 2010, p. 91.
  9. ^ "Conference Centre Oxford". Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  10. ^ Read & Manjon 1981, p. 94.
  11. ^ "The Jam Factory". Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  12. ^ "About My Life My Choice". UK: My Life My Choice. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  13. ^ a b Anonymous 1952, p. 1.
  14. ^ Anonymous 1952, p. 2.

Sources

Next crossing upstream Castle Mill Stream Next crossing downstream
Hythe Bridge Park End Street
Grid reference SP508063		 Quaking Bridge

51°45′10″N 1°15′57″W / 51.75278°N 1.26583°W / 51.75278; -1.26583

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