116 Church Road

  • Extract from pen-and-ink undated sketch showing this to be the main part of the existing house as shown in a 2018 photo where the remainder of the house has been faded out.
  • The house, 116 Church Road
  • The surgery, 112 Church Road, built in the 1970s or thereabouts
  • 1935 with view along Church Road with A Bates cycle business on the north side, and 65 Church Road behind it
  • Pre 1950s when Dr Orchard lived here
Archive Notes:

Photograph of Dr Flury's house, formerly known as The Doctor's House, now 116 Church Road and of the former surgery now 112 Church Road and the office of NORCAP, an adoption society.

Write-up on this house together with reference to the Crown Tap. Oxford University and City Herald, Saturday 07 May 1870, records George Putt as landlord. Also extract from pen-and-ink undated sketch showing this to be the main part of the existing house.

The 1935 view along Church Road, with Dr Flury's house on the left, shows Mr Bates bicycle shop which was run from a separate building initially near the corner of Robbins Row, and then from No. 65 which was built by the Bates family in the early 1930s. 

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