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This is the page for 300 Cowley Road.
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[[File:300-20162017-04.png|frame|2017: Christian Life Centre]][[File:300-2006-12.JPG|frame|December 20162006: The disused bingo hall, shortly before refurbishment. Photo by Cashen at geograph.co.uk]][[File:300-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]
==20172015-present==
This building is occupied by the evangelical Christian Life Centre church. According to the CLC website the church The organisation was founded by Pastor Grady Reid in 1996 elsewhere in Oxford <ref>http://www.clcoxford.co.uk/who-we-are/ website</ref>.
==2008-20??2015 ==
The building operated for a few years as a concert venue after being acquired by Oxford-based firm Solarview and undergoing refurbishment <ref name="oxMail">Oxford Mail 22 August 2006: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/888000.excinema_to_be_venue_for_arts/</ref>.
=== The murder of 'Wycombe Jay' ===
On 18 May 2009, Devon McPherson, a father-of-eight, nicknamed 'Wycombe Jay', collapsed in the Regal after having been stabbed in the neck on nearby Ridgefield Road. He later died in hospital.<ref>http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/4401140.COWLEY_ROAD_MURDER__Victim_was_due_to_become_a_dad_again/</ref> His last word was 'Champagne', the nickname of his murderer, Robert Chin. Chin, a drug dealer, was later sentenced to life imprisonment.<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4815400.East_Oxford_knife_killer_jailed_for_life/</ref>
==2005==
==Pre-1930s==
It seems likely that the Regal is the first building ever to be built on this site. This plot, along with much of the land east of the Regal (now covered by 1930s semis), was originally made up of vegetable patches and cricket fields a field before it was built on for the first time in the early 20th Century. In her Cowley Road history, Annie Skinner writes that part of this plot was Cowley Common Land, used in the 1800s by Magdalen Choir School for playing cricket <ref>Annie Skinner (2005) A Cowley Road History. Signal Books.</ref>.
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