Old views of the Broad on postcards
Above: This photograph ( F. Frith & Co postcard 40021, with the card postmarked 1904) dates from 1897. It shows Broad Street looking east, with Balliol on the left
Above: Looking east, in about 1905. The cabstand that is only just visible in the last picture, and the building adjoining Exeter College that occupied the site on the north-east corner of the Turl, can be seen more clearly here
The martyrs’ cross in the road, c.1924. The cabstand can be seen in the distance, but now there is just one horse-and-cart, and the rest are motor vehicles.
Above: Some early private cars parked in the middle of Broad Street.
Above: Two students stand in Broad Street around 1930. The one on the left (wearing a Commoner’s gown) is carrying books; the one on the right (with the cigarette in his mouth) carries a bag of tennis balls
Above: The centre of Broad Street is now a car park