Working Class Housing in Jericho

A research project by Andrew Whitehead

Posted - November 29, 2018

In the summer of 1977, Andrew Whitehead carried out a research project at the prompting of Crispin Paine, then at the Museum of Oxfordshire. Using property title deeds in the possession of Oxford City Council, and any he came across in the possession of owners, he sought to trace the history of working-class housing in the Jericho district of Oxford.

The text is available on Andrew Whitehead’s website by CLICKING HERE.

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Did you know?

Who has a car?

According to the 2001 Census, only 47% of Jericho households have a car compared with 67% for Oxford as a whole.

Cranham Street used to be a blot on the city

Before Grantham House was built, the site became notoriously derelict, making Cranham Street according to the local press a ‘blot on the city’ – wrecked by local children, and a refuge for rats and for ‘layabouts sleeping off the drink’ who were repeatedly evicted by the police.