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Tackley’s Inn, 107 High Street
We continue with the fourteenth in our series of best kept Oxford secrets and little gems. Each month we ask a customer or friend to share with us their thoughts. This month our resident tour guide...
View ArticleAntony Gormley Statue
The Highway Code advises looking left and right before crossing busy roads. But in Broad Street looking upwards can also bring unexpected rewards. In 2008 a 7ft (2.1m) high cast iron statue of a naked...
View ArticleThe Dodo that didn’t roar
Not far from the Old Bank and the Old Parsonage Hotels lies one of Oxford’s greatest treasure-houses – the University Museum of Natural History. In the 1860s it was often visited by a young academic at...
View ArticleMy Hidden Oxford
Oxford is famous for its cyclists. But not far from the Old Bank Hotel is a sight more familiar to gondoliers than bikers. Built in 1913-14 to connect two parts of Hertford College, the ornate flying...
View ArticlePort Meadow & Godstow Priory
According to some experts, the oldest surviving monument in the city is not a building but a field, or to put it more accurately, Port Meadow, three hundred acres of common land given to the freemen of...
View ArticleSwooning in the history of music
For the last few months a showcase in the lobby of the Old Bank Hotel has been displaying a selection of important wind instruments from The Bate Collection, one of Oxford’s most intriguiging – and yet...
View ArticleRobbery at the Old Bank
At the beginning of November I received a letter from Harriet Maunsell OBE whose mother lived in Oxford for 65 years & who wrote a book about private country banks; amongst her papers a little...
View ArticleThe Painted Room
The existence of The Painted Room in central Oxford, a stone’s throw from the Old Bank, is a minor miracle. According to two independent eyewitnesses, Shakespeare stayed there on his trips between...
View ArticleHidden Oxford: Cherwell Water Meadows
Meadows thick with wild flowers. A riverbank overhung by willows and oaks. Cattle grazing lazily in the shade. Just a few footpaths, rarely used even in high summer, and a horizon barred by thick...
View ArticleCollection of maps trace city’s historic events
Hitler had plans for Oxford. For proof, check the walls of the Old Parsonage Hotel. On display: a starkly elegant map – or “Stadtplan” – of the city, prepared by the German army. Possibly it was just...
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View ArticleMogford Short Story Prize 2020 Winner
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View ArticleParsonage Reopening
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