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This is The Old Music Hall, an office complex for NGOs, social enterprises and charities is run by the [http://www.ethicalproperty.co.uk/ Ethical Property Company], whose head office it is. They acquired the building in 2005<ref>http://www.cantaygroup.com/former-blackwells-building/</ref>. It is now home to over 40 occupants including the [https://newint.org New Internationalist] media co-operative, [https://peopleandplanet.org/ People & Planet] student campaigning organization and [https://agile.coop/ Agile co-op] web agency. At the rear of the building is a straw bale kitchen.
== 1938 1950s - 2006 1970s ==
Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/</ref> and converted it to offices and a book store. Kelly's Directory 1975 to 1976 D & A Fashions Ladieswear Nos 106-110. This is visible in a photo of 1974 in Malcolm Graham & Lawrence Waters' "Cowley and East Oxford Past and Present" which shows the right hand end as "Toytique". In 1975 Dennis Brown, owner of D & A Fashions was fined £5 for displaying an indecent jeans patch in his window.<ref>Times 25 Nov 1975 page 5</ref><br/> Kelly's Directory 1972 to 1973 Nos 106 to 110 Oxford Illustrators, publishers<br/> Kelly's Directory 1970 to 1971 No 106 Oxford Illustrators, publishers<br/> Kelly's Directory 1962 to 1970 No 108 Kemp Hall Bindery<br/> Kelly's Directory 1967 to 1969 No 106 Loose Covers<br/> Kelly's Directory 1964 No 106 Willgard Ltd, domestic electrical appliances<br/> Kelly's Directory 1956 to 1960 No 106 Kemp Hall Bindery<br/> Kelly's Directory 1952 to 1960 No 106 Your Shop Window Ltd antiques<br/> Klly's Directory 1958 No 108 John Gowing jeweller
== 1912 - 1937 1938 ==
Blackwells book shop acquired the premises in 1938<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/3801078.Music_hall_is_back_on_song/</ref> and converted it to offices and a book store. == 1932 == Kellys Directory 1932 No 106 was the Palace Picture House and 108 was Horace Pocock, confectioner<ref>Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1932</ref>.
== 1890s-1900s ==
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