Title: Oxford's Working Past
Author: Woolley, Liz
Published by: Huxley Scientific Press
Year: 2013
First published: Huxley Scientific Press, 2012
Date reviewed: 12.15
ISBN: 978-0-9522671-7-1

This neat little book by freelance Oxford historian Liz Woolley picks out a couple of dozen of Oxford’s Victorian and Edwardian industrial and commercial buildings, many of which still survive today. If you didn’t know where four of the city’s breweries used to be, where the original railway station was (not where the present one is), or why there’s a crane on the Head of the River pub’s riverside terrace, this is the book for you.

The buildings are grouped into three easy walks complete with their own map.