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Side of the Queen's Lane Coffee House on Queen's Lane View of the High Street in Oxford, with the Queen's Lane Coffee House in the distance, past the Queen's College on the left. Queen's Lane Coffee House is a historic coffee house established by Cirques Jobson, a Levantine Jew from Syria. [1] Dating back to 1654, it is the oldest continually ...
At the southeastern end of Queen's Lane is a junction onto the High Street.To the west is Queen's College and to the east on the corner is the Queen's Lane Coffee House, a historic coffee house dating from 1654, claimed (along with others) to be the oldest in Oxford.
83 High Street bears a blue plaque (10 October 2001) commemorating Sarah Cooper (1848–1932) marmalade maker, wife of Frank Cooper whose shop at 83–84 High Street was the origin of the Frank Cooper jam business (a brand now owned by Premier Foods). The company made "Oxford Marmalade" famous.
The first academic houses were monastic halls. Of the dozens established during the 12th–15th centuries, none survived the Reformation.The modern Dominican permanent private hall of Blackfriars (1921) is a descendant of the original (1221), and is sometimes described as heir to the oldest tradition of teaching in Oxford.
The Logic Lane covered bridge above Logic Lane running through University College, as viewed from the High Street. The main entrance to the college is on the High Street and its grounds are bounded by Merton Street and Magpie Lane. The college is divided by Logic Lane, which is owned by the college and runs through the centre. The western side ...
In 1958, the college was the first in Oxford or Cambridge to provide a Middle Common Room exclusively for the use of graduate students. [18] [19] Like many of Oxford's colleges, Lincoln admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979, [20] after more than half a millennium as a men-only institution. The MCR is now located in the Berrow Foundation ...
As well as being one of the first Oxford colleges to take undergraduates and to appoint tutors to teach them, [8] [17] New College was the first in Oxford to be deliberately designed around a main quadrangle. [17] The college was about as large as all of the (six) existing Oxford colleges combined. [18] [19]
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