Mitre Hotel, High Street, Oxford 1950s
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Street scene on the High Street in Oxford during the 1950s, centred on the frontage of the Mitre Hotel. The hotel’s long, slightly irregular façade, with its projecting bays, sash windows and dark-painted ground-floor frontage, reflects its origins as a group of earlier buildings adapted over time for commercial use.
Pedestrians pass along the pavement while a dark saloon car edges into view at the left, capturing the everyday movement of one of Oxford’s busiest streets in the post-war period. A roadside “No Waiting” sign stands in the foreground, hinting at the increasing pressure of traffic management in the historic city centre as car ownership grew.
The Mitre Hotel continues to trade on the High Street today, making this photograph a useful record of its mid-20th-century appearance before later refurbishments and changes to the street’s use.
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