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This was Beeline Bicycles [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/6864441138 as can be seen here] | This was Beeline Bicycles [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/6864441138 as can be seen here] | ||
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| − | From 1986 to 2011 this was Bead Games run by Erica Steinhauer<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8891544.Cowley_Road_stalwart_shuts_up_shop_after_25_years/</ref>. As well as beads and other craft findings and party accessories, you could hire or buy exotic and antique costumes. To stay in business Erica later stocked confectionery that resembled the beads. She also organised the Mad Hatter's Tea Parties every May in Dawson Street and tried to resist the colonisation of Dawson Street by the outdoor seating of Cafe Coco (No 23) and Kazbar (No 25) both owned (along with Cafe Tarifa No 56) by Clinton Pugh. | + | From 1986 to 2011 this was Bead Games run by Erica Steinhauer<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8891544.Cowley_Road_stalwart_shuts_up_shop_after_25_years/</ref>. As well as beads and other craft findings and party accessories, you could hire or buy exotic and antique costumes. To stay in business Erica later stocked confectionery that resembled the beads. She also organised the Mad Hatter's Tea Parties every May in Dawson Street and tried to resist the colonisation of Dawson Street by the outdoor seating of Cafe Coco (No 23) and Kazbar (No 25) both owned (along with Cafe Tarifa No 56) by Clinton Pugh. The shop's closure was covered in an [http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8891544.Cowley_Road_stalwart_shuts_up_shop_after_25_years/ article] by the ''Oxford Mail''. |
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| + | Shortly before it closed, Bead Games appeared in a 2011 episode of ITV's ''Lewis'', entitled [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781368/ Old Unhappy Far Off Things]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:23, 16 August 2017
This is the page for 40 Cowley Road
?Date - Present
At present this is the PIP Consultation Centre run by Independent Assessment Services. This is where people receiving disability benefits are assessed.
2012
This was Beeline Bicycles as can be seen here
1986-2011
From 1986 to 2011 this was Bead Games run by Erica Steinhauer[1]. As well as beads and other craft findings and party accessories, you could hire or buy exotic and antique costumes. To stay in business Erica later stocked confectionery that resembled the beads. She also organised the Mad Hatter's Tea Parties every May in Dawson Street and tried to resist the colonisation of Dawson Street by the outdoor seating of Cafe Coco (No 23) and Kazbar (No 25) both owned (along with Cafe Tarifa No 56) by Clinton Pugh. The shop's closure was covered in an article by the Oxford Mail.
Shortly before it closed, Bead Games appeared in a 2011 episode of ITV's Lewis, entitled Old Unhappy Far Off Things.
1976
Kelly's Directory 1976 No 40 Dog Care Centre
Before then?
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