Gardner’s 1852 Directory: Oxford city
Post and Money Order Office, Town Hall, St. Aldate’s-street. Mr Joseph Warne, Postmaster
RECEIVING HOUSES.-Messrs. Marmaduke Johnson’s, New-road; Thomas Dyer’s, St. Giles’-road; W.C. Shepperd’s, 45 Holywell-street; Thomas Houghton’s, St. Clement’s; and Richard Medcraft, Summertown
After that introduction, the Directory is divided up under the headings listed below:
Private residents
Miscellany
Academies & Schools
Accountants
Agents: Various
Architects & Surveyors
Artists
Attorneys
Auctioneers & Appraisers
Bakers
Bankers
Basket Makers
Baths Proprietors
Berlin & Fancy Wool Warehouse
Billiard Room Proprietors
Blacksmiths & Farriers
Boat builders
Bookbinders
Booksellers &c.
Boot & Shoemakers
Brass Founders
Brazier & Tin-plate workers
Breeches makers & Glovers
Brewers
Builders
Butchers
Butchers (Pork) & Bacon curers
Cabinet makers & Upholsterers
Carpenters & Joiners
Carriers (by Railway)
Carvers & Gilders
Chemists and Druggists
China & Glass dealers
Clothes cleaners
Clothes dealers
Coach builders
Coal merchants
Coal dealers
Coffee and Eating-House keepers
College servants
Confectioners
Coopers
Cork cutters
Corn & Seed merchants and factors
Corn millers
Curriers & Leather sellers
Cutlers (Working)
Dairymen
Desk and Dressing-case makers
Dyers & Glazers
Engravers
Fire & Life Assurance agents
Fancy Warehousemen
Fishmongers
Fly proprietors
Fruiterers
Furniture brokers
Green grocers
Grocers & Tea Dealers, Cheese, & Bacon factors, &c.
Groceries & Sundries, Dealers
Gun makers
Hairdressers & Perfumers
Hairdressers & Shavers
Hatters
Hop merchants
Hotels, Inns, & Beer retailers
Ironmongers
Land surveyors
Libraries, Circulating
Linen drapers, Silk mercers, Haberdashers, Hosiers &c.
Livery stable keepers
Maltsters
Manufacturers, &c., various
Mercers (Gentlemen’s), Hosiers, &c.
Milliners
& Dress makers
Music & Musical instrument sellers
News Agents
Newspapers
Nursery & Seedsmen
Oil & colourmen
Painters & Glaziers
Physicians
Picture
frame makers
Plasterers, Slaters, &
Bricklayers
Poulterers & Game dealers
Printers
Printsellers
Professors & Teachers
Rope
& Twine makers
Saddlers, &c.
Sculptors
Silversmiths & Jewellers
Stationers & Fancy warehousemen
Stay makers
Stone & Marble masons
Straw hat makers
Surgeon dentists
Surgeons
Tailor & Robe makers
Tailors only
Tallow chandlers
Tanner
Tea dealers & Drapers (Travelling)
Tennis court keepers
Timber merchants
Tobacconists
Tobacco pipe makers
Town carmen
Toy dealers
Trunk makers
Turners
Umbrella makers
Undertakers
Veterinary surgeons
Watch & clock makers
Wheelwrights
Whitesmiths & Bell-hangers
Window glass & lead merchants
Wine merchants
Woodcarvers & decorators
Woollen drapers