This little local site has been cheekily hiding right under my nose, 20 minutes walk from my house, for as long as I've been exploring. It's so tucked away I never even noticed it before, and looking at it from the air it simply looks like a long shed type building at the back of some houses. It took an article in the Oxford Mail a couple of months ago to make me realise I'd totally missed it, as it's soon to be demolished as part of a long overdue expansion of Oxford railway station.
I can't find a single thing on this place other than the news article and paperwork inside giving a closure date of 2010, it looks to date roughly from the late 1940s/early 1950s at a guess. It's faired remarkably well considering it's constructed largely of wood, with very little in the way of any vandalism - it's location literally at the back end of numerous people's gardens, hemmed in by a Network Rail compound and a large student housing building must mean not many of the idiots know it's there either. The only real damage was evidence of a small fire in one area, which was extinguished fairly quickly by the looks of it, and one broken window on the inside. It looked like it had been used as temporary storage or something by whichever university built the sawtooth monstrosity of student housing next door as inside were numerous mattresses and dismantled brand new beds, as well as pretty much everything from when it was a social club, everything that is except the fruit machines which were presumably sold off or something.
Entry was nice and simple, and it was quite nice to see inside something new and very local to me, as places to explore actually in Oxford city centre itself have always been few and far between.
Thanks for looking
I can't find a single thing on this place other than the news article and paperwork inside giving a closure date of 2010, it looks to date roughly from the late 1940s/early 1950s at a guess. It's faired remarkably well considering it's constructed largely of wood, with very little in the way of any vandalism - it's location literally at the back end of numerous people's gardens, hemmed in by a Network Rail compound and a large student housing building must mean not many of the idiots know it's there either. The only real damage was evidence of a small fire in one area, which was extinguished fairly quickly by the looks of it, and one broken window on the inside. It looked like it had been used as temporary storage or something by whichever university built the sawtooth monstrosity of student housing next door as inside were numerous mattresses and dismantled brand new beds, as well as pretty much everything from when it was a social club, everything that is except the fruit machines which were presumably sold off or something.
Entry was nice and simple, and it was quite nice to see inside something new and very local to me, as places to explore actually in Oxford city centre itself have always been few and far between.
Thanks for looking
