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No. 60 Banbury Road, North Oxford, viewed from south west. Named "Shrublands", built in 1866 by W. Wilkinson who described this house in his book "English Country Houses" (plates XI & XII). In the 1960s, no. 60 was one of those houses threatened by plans for a new building of Pitt-Rivers Museum, which, eventually, could not be realized due to lack of funds. Since 2006, this building forms the site of Kellogg College, together with No. 62 (partly visible on the left), No. 64, the strange Balfour Building in the backyard and some other modern additions. Today it's named "Geoffrey Thomas House", after the colleges first president, and houses the college library and some office and meeting rooms. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - E. O. Dodgson: Notes on Nos. 56, 58, 60, 62 and 64 Banbury Road (Oxoniensia) - Historic England, Architectural Red Box Collection, "Oxford, Oxon" - Internet Archive (archive.org) for "English Country Houses" - Brochure "A short history of Kellogg College", found at kellogg.ox.ac.uk

This is my old school!

Built in 1847 as Leamington College, it then housed the Sacred Heart Catholic Convent from 1903-1916, and subsequently Dover College from 1916-1922, before once again becoming Leamington College for Boys. I was a pupil here from 1959 to 1966.

In 1977 as part of secondary school reorganization, it became Binswood Hall sixth-form centre. It finally closed altogether in 2009, was sold for redevelopment, and is currently (July 2010) awaiting conversion into a retirement flats complex.

Strange to tell, my current home is a flat in a retirement flats complex in Bristol.

A NEIGHBORHOOD ICON: Holy Trinity Church houses many memorials to parish members. The columbarium, completed in 1938, was the first of its kind in Queensland. Honour boards in the rear of the church name 225 men and women who served in the two world wars, most of whom hailed from the local neighborhood. The freestanding bell tower, dedicated to those who died in WWII, was originally erected within a memorial garden on the church grounds. A cross from the Church in Japan honours Holy Trinity parishioner John Duffill, one of the New Guinea Martyrs of 1942. In the inter-and post-war years, Holy Trinity’s church hall and grounds served as a nucleus of activity in the area, hosting social events from high teas and fetes to local branches of Scouts and Girl Guides. For more than a century, Holy Trinity Church stood atop the hill nestled amongst trees and gardens — a small oasis in a densely developed neighborhood. But this was not to last. Source: www.holytrinity.com.au/our-history