In fact those shops may have been demolished a bit earlier in the 1990s. Here is the new building going up in April 2000

This photograph shows the group of shops that were demolished in 1999 (along with more shops and the cinema around the corner in New High Street) to make way for a new development of shops and flats: Pennies, Headington Sports, Sewing & Knitting Machine Centre, ?, and Oxford Video Club

The Headington Greggs is closed today (21 July 2026), with no reason given on the door

To celebrate #PostboxSaturday, here is one of the three oldest postboxes in Headington, marked GR and dating from the reign of George V (1910–1936), in New High Street. and Headington's newest one at the Roundway (Charles III)

Here are some of Headington's Silver Joggers who celebrated the group's twelfth birthday with Oxford's Lord Mayor Chewe Munkonge at the Courtside Café in Bury Knowle Park this morning (16 July 2026)

Planning application 26/01542/FUL (reasons for replacement of earlier approved plan shown below) has been submitted by Dunne Property Developments for eight flats with commercial units below on the site of 255 & 257 London Road (on corner of Barton Road) public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

Headington Singers concert at All Saints Church tomorrow (Friday 10 July 2026) at 7.30pm. Details on poster

The G. H. Williams cycle shop was here at 115 London Road for fifty years from 1956–2006, but in the twenty years since then it has been Café On-Line, the LJ Discount Store, a Polish delicatessen, Euro Foods, and Redsky

Redsky (the only shop in Headington with a zero hygiene rating) has closed down, and "Master Butchers" appear to have moved in, as they have transferred their old sign here from their former shop (previously Bluefin) opposite

Breckon & Breckon's planning application for external alterations to the former NatWest Bank building in Headington was approved yesterday: public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

Headington Bowls Club in Osler Road is sponsored by opticians and by funeral directors

Oxford's first Coffee Rave in collaboration with the Oxford Run Club took place this morning at Broche Coffee in Headington

Tumazo Pizza about to open

This notice on the door of Tumazo Pizza at 71A London Road announces its grand opening at 5pm tomorrow (Monday 15 June 2026)

The planning application for "retention of existing building to be used as a distillery" at Cheney Lane was approved today: public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

The Planning Committee's decision to approve the Warneford Park development was (unusually) called in by twelve city councillors, but the Planning Review Committee is recommended to approve the application with some amendments: mycouncil.oxford.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

The Cancer Research UK charity shop next to Savers is closing today (Sat 6 June 2026). This notice in its window says that it raised £4,287,955 in the 34 years it was here

Parkinson's UK is donating its Chelsea Flower Show garden with over £300,000 in plantings and features (plus £50,000) to the John Radcliffe Hospital. A planning application has been submitted to create this new garden in the grounds of the Manor House: public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

Traffic coming from the west along the London Road is still being held up too long at the temporary traffic lights. This photograph shows the situation this morning (Sunday): no work is taking place over the long weekend

After yesterday's chaos, clearer details are now coming through about where buses coming from the Oxford direction are stopping in Central Headington during the Thames Water roadworks. Here is the Oxford Bus Company information

Just to clarify: local buses from Oxford are dropping off passengers (and picking them up for Barton, Thame etc) outside Heavenly Desserts, but the Oxford Tube has managed to get its normal Headington Shops stop (HS5) London-bound reopened, According to this notice, the work will last six days

These works by Thames Water mean that the pavement is closed near Bury Knowle Park. Also (possibly unrelated) there are temporary traffic lights at the main Headington crossroads whose poor sequence is causing tailbacks in both directions on the London Road

This detail from the same 1937 postcard shows some interesting street furniture at the Headington crossroads: a handsome ornate electrical distribution box on the left, three elegant lampposts, two telegraph poles in Old High Street, and just two traffic lights

Memories of Headington's Manor Ground (now the site of the Manor Hospital) 25 years after Oxford United played its last game there www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Broche, now with signage, is looking busy

Breckon & Breckon Estate Agents who are moving into the former NatWest Bank have submitted planning application 26/01001/FUL for changes to its frontage, new railings, new window etc public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

Nasty attack in Bonn Square means that numerous No. 8 buses are stuck

Leopard Press in Windmill Road is now open while building work continues, but with these restricted opening hours

Tumazo Pizza isn't ready to open at 71A London Road yet but is already making its name known

The Headington Broche is currently (Sunday 26 April 2026, 12.30pm) holding a soft opening, and people are welcome to go in and have a look