Lockdown restrictions remain tight but should allow a quick walk around Oxford city centre, where there is plenty of 'hidden history' in plain sight.

One good way of rediscovering the city's history is to take a look at blue plaques erected over the years by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, and other plaques and historical features.

A good place to start your walk is at Oxford railway station, where a short distance away in Frideswide Square there is a plaque marking the removal of the LMS station in 1999.

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The former Rewley Road LMS Station became the focus for protesters in September 1998 when its demolition was revealed.

They gathered outside the former station building for London, Midland and Scottish Railway in a bid to save it.

Oxford Mail:

Some campaigners scaled the building and climbed trees in a bid to delay the demolition but they were unsuccessful.

The following year the former station was removed to make way for the Said Business School, which overlooks Oxford railway station and Frideswide Square.

There is now a metal plaque set into the pavement in Frideswide Square, outside the Said Business School.

On the opposite side of the square is the Jam Factory, where Frank Cooper's marmalade was made.

In 1903, Frank Cooper’s original Jam Factory building was completed by the Oxford builder TH Kingerlee & Sons. The architect was Herbert Quinton.

In 1925 the Jam Factory site was extended through the addition of a wing which takes the building out to the edge of Hollybush Row, where it stands today.

The ornamental façade of the building featured prominent lettering ‘FRANK COOPER OXFORD MARMALADE’ which helped to create it as an Oxford landmark, especially for the thousands of travellers using the railway stations.

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In 1951, the factory closed after the Second World War when Cooper’s moved production to a new site on the Botley Road, to the former Majestic Cinema building.

A blue plaque for Sarah Cooper (1848-1932) at 83 High Street says she first made Oxford marmalade there in 1874.

A plaque for Cecil Jackson Cole, entrepreneur, at 17 Broad Street, is a reminder he helped to establish the first Oxfam shop in 1947.

Oxford Mail:

At 12 Woodstock Road, there is a blue plaque for the first Oxford Playhouse (1923-1938) which started on the site of the former Big Game Museum built in 1906.

At 34 St Michael's Street there is a blue plaque for prison reformer Felicia Skene (1821-1899) who lived there from 1869-1899.

And at 34 Cornmarket a plaque indicates the site of the Star Inn, where in 1794 the Oxfordshire Yeomanry was formed.

There is a plaque for the artist William Turner (1833-1862) at 16 St John's Street), and another for William Wilkinson, architect of the Randolph Hotel, at 5 Beaumont Street.

Oxford Mail:

And lawyer Ivy Williams (1877-1966), first woman to be called to the English Bar, gets a plaque at 12 King Edward Street.