Riding Past The Kings Arms
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Riding Past The Kings Arms
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 3 Feb 2020
An old pub at the junction of Main Street with Stanton Road. The pub is now a house but the old pub sign has been kept, showing it was one of the 300 pubs in the Hall's Oxford Brewery estate. Thanks to the Brewery history society for this info on Hall's - "Registered in December 1896 to acquire Hall & Co. From April 1899 all brewing was concentrated at the City Brewery. Acquired with 300 tied houses by Allsopp & Sons Ltd in 1926 and brewing ceased. The Hall's brand was retained for many years afterwards, and many of their houses featured four wall-mounted tiles with the 'Hare' trade mark" .http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hall%27s_Oxford_Brewery_Ltd Company accounts were last registered in 2002 so it looks like even the pubco. business has ceased and Hall's really is history.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.766639
Longitude
-1.153389