10 pictures show the real St Clement's in Oxford

Clems nightclub ran into trouble with the city council when it was decorated with graffiti-style artwork.

Luis Carrera's club hit the headlines when the dazzling artwork appeared and it was removed following complaints.

In 2013 the graffiti outside the club was replaced with blocks of blue and red, following an agreement between its owners and Oxford City Council.

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Council officers worked with Mr Carrera to agree a new colour scheme which did not require planning permission or advertising consent.

St Clement’s councillor Graham Jones said he was pleased with the result.

He said at the time: “The new scheme is a win-win. It picks up the classical lines of The Plain’s buildings, and does it in a colourful way.

“This is a victory for the people who live in the area and said ‘no’ to the garish scheme that was so at odds with the Conservation Area.

“If we get a neighbourhood plan for East Oxford I hope it will put conservation area rules ahead of advertising rules. If that had been so here it would have resolved the issue very quickly.

“We can now turn our attention to noise and disturbance caused by night club clientele.”

Clems originally had the club’s name painted in large letters, but the council told the owner the words exceeded the maximum height and would need advertising consent.

The next design was cartoon characters and its website address which was not deemed to be in keeping within the surrounding area.

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Mr Carrera said at the time: “The advice I received was that there were no legal grounds for their objection, but I cannot afford to fight this in court. So the graffiti is gone.”

The club closed in 2014 after the lease was put on the market for an undisclosed price.

Other photos show former shops including Souch’s which sold sweets for many years until it shut in 1985.

It was the end of era in January 1985 when the sweet shop announced it was closing to make way for a hair salon.

Customers walking into the popular St Clement's store were transported to a bygone age.

There was hardly a plastic wrapper to be seen in the old-fashioned emporium. Instead, sweets and chocolates, displayed in jars around the shop were weighed out and sold in paper bags.

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Old-style favourites such as aniseed balls, sherbet lemons, pear drops and gob stoppers were just as popular in 1985 as the had been in the 1950s , according to owner Eunice Primer and her son Richard.

But sweet-toothed shoppers were left looking for a new place to find their childhood favourites after the pair revealed they were shutting up the shop, which had sold sweets for 150 years.

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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.

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