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This is the page for 101 Cowley Road.
2011 - present
This is the Truck Store music shop, incorporating Mostro Coffee shop [1].
2012 - 2015
Until the in-house Mostro Coffeetook over in 2015, the coffee shop inside was franchised to the Keen Bean Coffee Club [2]. The Keen Bean crew then moved out to open their own cafe, The Bear & The Bean, at number 98.
2002 - 2010
This was a branch of Videosyncratic video rental shop, which also had a branch in Jericho. The Cowley Road branch first appeared in Thomsons Directory in 2005. This branch was run by Jon Spira, who in 2017 published a book about his time running the Cowley Road shop. [3]
1980s
Thomsons Directory 1984 Waterfall Records
1950s
Kellys Directory 1952 to 1956 Silk's Stores grocers & confectioners
Offices upstairs (and behind =101a?)
From Kelly's and Thomson's Directories
1971 to 2000 John Roberts & Co, insurance brokers
1968 to 1992 Provident Personal Credit Co ltd, cheque traders
1972 to 1992 Industrial Cleaning Services (Southern) Ltd, cleaning contractors
1976 Isis Installation & Emergency Services Ltd, heating engineers
1976 Individual Finance Company Ltd
1964 to 1975 Saunders School of Motoring
1960 City School of Motoring
1968 to 1972 Lovell Jones Ltd publishers
1964 to 1970 Keith Rowland surveyor
1964 University Insurance Brokers
1962 to 1964 Mills Scaffolding
1962 Knitmaster Services knitting machines
1958 to 1962 S F Patterson solicitor
1958 to 1967 Donald Silk solicitor
1952 to 1967 Silk's Estate Agency
Before then?
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