High Street
Oxford, OX1 4BG
Beaumont Buildings
Oxford, OX1 2LL
Boot scraper incorporated in wrought iron railings right hand side of doorway
36 St Giles, Oxford. 13th May 2011
Exotic, scroll carved stone plinths either side of the main doorway to the Taylor Institute, Oxford designed to incorporate a boot scraper.
14th May 2011
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1130 St Giles’ Church was founded in the fields to the north of the town of Oxford
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1100s Settlement in part of St Giles’ Street
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1294 Cows purchased outside the North Gate suggest that there may have been a cattle market in St Giles Street in the thirteenth century
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1325 First record of the name St Giles’ Street
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1437 St Bernard’s College founded on the site of St John’s College
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1555 St Bernard’s College (now only an academic hall) bought by Sir Thomas White and refounded as St John’s College
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c.1600 Black Hall (now 21 St Giles’ Street) built
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1624 First record of St Giles’ Parish Wake, the forerunner of the Fair
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1650 First mention of the Eagle & Child
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1669 A fire to the north of Black Hall (No. 21) burnt out 6–8 families
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1672 St Giles was paved from St Mary Magdalen Church to St John’s College; continued towards St Giles Church in 1675
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c.1695 Lamb & Flag alehouse opened
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c.1700 41 St Giles’ Street was built
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1702 St Giles’ House (No. 16) was built for Thomas Rowney, MP for Oxford.
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1786 Drains or sewers were installed in St Giles
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1823 Beaumont Street was cut through land belonging to St John’s College, providing access to Worcester College from the south end of St Giles Street.
One of two cast iron boot scrapers either side of 37a St Giles, Oxford.
Image taken 13th May 2011
Cast iron boot scraper, left hand side of doorway 38 St Giles, Oxford. 13th May 2011
Balliol College, 1 St Giles, two boot scraper insets either side of doorway without boot scrapers. 9 1/2" high x 6 1/2" across. 18th December 2013
St Giles, Oxford, wide open thoroughfare.
Image Taken 22nd February 2014
One of two wrought iron boot scraper left hand side of main doorway of the Taylor Institute, St Giles, Oxford. 14th May 2011
Taylor Institute, St Giles, Oxford.
Image taken 14th May 2011
No. 10 Downing Street, Latest Craze
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The latest craze of tourists visiting Downing Street, London is to clean their feet on the boot scrapers on either side of the door of No 10 scraper .....
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Belfast News-Letter Wednesday 12th October 1927 p.6
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Two girls and a bobby 10 Downing Street, London 1970 copyright Photolibrary
Wrought iron boot scraper, blade placed low in the ground adjacent to stone step right hand side of doorway. 19 St Giles, Oxford. 14th February 2014
Partially blocked in recess cast iron boot scraper, top of Little Clarendon Street and St Giles.
20th February 2014
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19 St Giles, Oxford, boot scraper right hand side of doorway. 14th February 2014
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Top of Little Clarendon Street and St Giles, one of two doorways closed off with cast iron boot scraper in recess partially hidden. 20th February 2014