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2017

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 2011? - present

2017: Squatters open the upstairs floor as a homeless hostel, protesting the lack of affordable accommodation in the city.

This is a Sainsbury's Local.

The upstairs is vacant office space which has been up for rent for several years. In early 2017 it was briefly occupied and opened as a squatted night shelter by the Iffley Open House group, a partnership between local homeless people and activists formed to provide shelter throughout the coldest months of the 2016-17 winter . The action was widely covered in the local media .

1990s and 2000s

1995: Photographed by Martin Stott

 Blockbuster Video. Listed as 2 - 5 Tyndale House, Cowley Road in Thomsons Directory 1998 and 2010

1980s

'Ritz' video hire. Thomsons Directory 1991 2-5 Tyndale House, Cowley Rd Ritz Video Hire

1968 - 1980s

Here were the offices of the Department of Health and Social Security
This was a Green Shield Stamp shop.

Kellys Directory 1952 to 1971 Cowley St John senior girls' school

1868 - 1963

How the corner of James Street would look today if the church still stood. Drawing based on archive photograph of the former Congregational Church.

A Congregational Church stood on the site of Tyndale House during this period. It was established as a mission from the Congregational Chapel in George Street, Oxford in 1868/9, changing its name to Tyndale Church in 1955. It was closed in 1962 and demolished in 1963.

Postcard of Cowley Road in about 1900. The Congregational Church on the site of Tyndale House can be seen on the left standing on the corner James Street . On the eastern corner of James Street is Edward Radbone's grocer's shop and post office at No.136.

Before then?

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