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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]
1970s -1980s
Thomsons Directory 1984 Waterfall Records
Offices in the upper floors:
Kelly's Directory 1976 No 101 John Roberts & Co, insurance brokers, also in Thomson's Directories for 1981 and 2000
Kelly's Directory 1976 No 101a Provident Personal Credit Co ltd, cheque traders (also in Thomsons 1992)/Industrial Cleaning Services (Southern) Ltd, cleaning contractors (also in Thomsons 1992)/Isis installation & Emergency Services Ltd, heating engineers/Individual Finance Company Ltd
Before then?
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