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2016: The recently closed La Croissanterie, boarded up to prevent rough sleepers using the doorway.
1995: Photographed by Martin Stott

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November 2017

Opened as La Belleza beauty lounge

before?1998 - 2016

For years this was the independently owned La Croissanterie French takeaway, serving baguettes and snacks, listed here in Thomsons Diectory 1998. In 2016 the business closed. With a sharp rise in rough sleeping that year, the recessed doorway was quickly occupied by night sleepers. By the end of the year the shopfront had been boarded up.

before?1940s - 1980s

Kelly's Directory 1943 to 1976 No 138 J H Dewhurst butchers, and in Thomson's Directory 1984 & 1991. They had 5 branches in Oxford in 1988 but by 1995 only one, in Carterton

Before then?

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