High Street
Oxford, OX1 4BG
Broad Street, Oxford
2nd February 2019
The Master's Lodgings, Balliol College
Broad Street, Oxford.
Image taken 5th November 2013
The Master's Lodgings, Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford. Boot scraper left hand side of doorway.
Delightful, intimate, boot scraper 5" across x 2" high, encased in especially stone constructed housing, left hand side of front door, level with first stone step above pavement of The Master's Lodgings, Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford.
Image taken 5th November 2013.
Locally known as 'The Broad', Broad Street is a wide open street, it developed alongside the town ditch in front of the city wall, north of the street.
By 1230 the road was used for a horse market and called Horsemonger Lane. There are notable independently owned university buildings in Broad Street comprising of Bailiol and Trinity Colleges, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Weston Library and the Museum of the History of Science, Blackwell's original bookshop opened in 1879. In addition, there is one remaining timber framed public house called the White Horse.
ref. www.oxford.gov.uk
5th November 2013.
Bailiol College, St Giles, two empty boot scraper encasements either side of doorway.
18th December 2013