138: Paul Bakery
No. 138 was rebuilt for City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd in 1922, and the Oxford Journal Illustrated of 12 April that year published a photograph of their new offices. They remained in this building from 1922 to 1998. Below is an advertisement from the 1950s.
It then became a ladies' fashion shop called Coast, and since 2014 it has been the Paul Bakery.
Former house on this site (to 1850)
The Survey of Oxford shows that in 1772 the old house on this site was occupied by a Mr Rawlins. It was in the parish of All Saints until that church closed in 1971. It is now in the parish of St Michael-at-the-Northgate Church.
At the time of the 1841 census Michael Underhill lived over his grocer's shop here with his wife Eleanor, and their children Ann, Mary, Charlotte, Matilda, Charles, and Henry, plus an apprentice and a female servant.
On 29 November 1845 the hair cutter Charles Chaundy announced that he had moved here from 62 Cornmarket Street.
Present house (from 1851)
In the 1851 census, the enumerator recorded that a new house was being built on this site. As soon as it was ready, Henry Hatch moved his business into these new premises from six doors away at No. 132. Hatch did not live over his premises, and in 1861 Miss Lucy Ann Miller (32), the manager of his shoe shop downstairs, lived here with a shop assistant and a servant. Hatch took Lucy Miller into partnership in 1867, and near the beginning of 1868 she married Walter Cundell. At the time of the 1871 census Walter was away and Mrs Cundell was here with her stepchildren Mary Catherine Cundell (19) and William Hatch Cundell (16) and her own son Tom Miller Cundell (1). A shopwoman lodged with the family, and they had one servant.
The 1881 census shows the boot & shoe maker William Tipton living here over his shop with his wife and his daughter Sarah who assisted him in the business, plus their servant girl. He was still here in 1891.
By 1892 the tailor John Clemence was here, and that year his was one of the first shops in Oxford to get connected to the new electricity supply.
No one lived over these premises at the time of the1901 and 1911 censuses.
Occupiers of 138 High
Street | |
1839 |
Michael Underhill, Grocer |
1846 |
Charles Chaundy, Hair cutter |
1851–1867 |
Henry Hatch, Boot & shoe warehouse (in partnership with Miss Lucy Ann Miller from 1 January 1867) |
1869–1872 |
James Cundell (Walter Cundell in 1872), Boot & shoe maker |
1875–1892 |
William Tipton (briefly Tipton & Hatch), Boot & shoe warehouse |
1892–1912 |
John Clemence & Co., Tailors |
1913–1919 |
Hugh James Allen, Tailor |
1922–1998 |
City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd, later Carfax Travel Bureau |
1998–2014 |
Coast, Ladies’ fashion (Washington International Studies Council upstairs to c.2001) |
2014– |
Paul Bakery |
