RECENT NEWS
Why a new Community Centre
Published - Jul 23 2025
With a compulsory purchase of the Jericho Wharf site, Jericho could finally get the new Community Centre we urgently need
Dancing through the showers
Published - Jun 08 2025
Undaunted by the forecast, thousands of people dodged the downpours to enjoy Street Fair 2025
Rewriting Jericho’s history
Published - Apr 10 2025
There was full house for the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Jericho Community Association. Residents were entertained to a fresh look at Jericho's origins from historian Mark Davies. The JCA officers reported on a successful year for the Association, and there was an interesting update on the Save Jericho Wharf campaign for a compulsory purchase by the City Council
Residents angry at ‘shameful’ derelict Wharf site
Published - Feb 28 2025
A packed Phoenix cinema enjoyed two wonderful film evocations of Jericho. But in the subsequent open discussion they angrily condemned shameful behaviour by the landowner and developers of the Jericho Wharf site, and years of inertia and even obstruction by planning officers. It is time for the City to step in and end this dreary cycle of greed and incompetence,
The lost pubs of Jericho
Published - Jan 30 2025
Dave Richardson, of the Oxford branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, recalls our long-gone pubs, with a little help from his friends
Time for the City to step in
Published - Dec 03 2024
The Jericho Wharf Trust has launched a campaign to Save Jericho Wharf through a compulsory purchase by the City Council
Thank you Sue, and welcome Peter
Published - Aug 31 2024
Sue Pead is retiring as administrator of the Community Centre. Her successor is Peter Hart
See Jericho from another platform
Published - Jun 28 2024
Visit Jericho aims to attract visitors to Oxford's off-the-beaten-track ‘cultural quarter’
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.
Where the name Jericho comes from?
The name Jericho is probably taken from the parable of the Good Samaritan. Traditionally the name was given to places where travellers who arrived after the town gates had closed at sunset could find lodgings overnight.
