50 Years After Cutteslowe Wall


50 years on: a look back in pictures at the timee when bricks and mortar divided North Oxford into two.

Images from 1938 and 1959 of the Cutteslowe Wall.
  • Front page of the Oxford Mail Monday, 9 March 1959.
  • The last remaining section of Oxford's notorious Cutteslowe Wall is likely to be demolished to make way for a new garage. Mr. Mike Cleary of Wentworth Road, Oxford, plans to knock down the part of the eight foot high wall which stands in his driveway.8 Ma
  • Looking at Cutteslowe Wall from Aldrich Road. 16 November 1956.
  • Cutteslowe Wall Oxford's famous walls down at last Supt. N. Goodchold, Mr. C. R. Fox (Chief Constable of Oxford), Mr. W. Clarkson, Coun. R. W. M. Gibbs and Mr. A. Carstairs (Oxford City Engineer) watching the demolition. 08/06/1938
  • Cutteslowe Wall being knocked down 13 March 1959
  • Children of Cutteslowe infants School walking through a gap later.
  • Demolition of the Cutteslowe Wall in 1959.
  • Front page of the Oxford Mail, Wednesday 8 June 1938.
  • Demolishing the Cutteslowe Wall in 1959.
  • This picture shows the Cutteslowe wall in May 1935. Members Of the Oxford City Police preventing demonstrators approaching the Wall.
  • Demolishing the wall in 1938.
  • Gates being erected across the road in Cutteslowe. 30 June 1930.

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Images from 1938 and 1959 of the Cutteslowe Wall.

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