But as he said at the time, “I’m a glutton for work.” They had opened their first shop in Oxford Covered Market in 1965, followed by another in Church Lane, Banbury, in 1967 and a third at ...

Oxford City Council has proposed allocating more than £1m of additional funding to the Covered Market redevelopment. If approved, this would bring the total investment in the project to almost £8m.

OXFORD could always boast big-name stores like Marks & Spencer and Boots, but also had an array of small, locally-run shops ...