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== 2017 ==
== 1988: the Smith family tragedy ==
In March 1988, a pregnant woman and her twin sons were killed when a Landrover ploughed into them, also destroying the wall at the eastern corner of the church. Brian Price, who lived in Bowness Avenue, Headington, had had a heart attack and died at the wheel while the car was in motion. James and Robert Smith, aged five, died instantly; their mother Maria Smith, thirty-six, subsequently died of head injuries in the John Radcliffe Hospital. The family lived in Jeune Street. A daughter, Olivia, six, survived.<ref />
== Before then? ==
The church was opened in 1904.
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<code>[[File:wesley_hallWesley hall.jpg|frame| Postcard of the church dating from c.1905]]</code>
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It was renamed Cowley Road Methodist Church in 1934.
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