This little hut I have been told was a listed building, and it was once a weighing station when the area was used as a cattle market, this again I am not sure. Anyway the building has now been very carefully dismantled and packed up, and I was told is going to be rebuilt exactly as it was on a new site within the county, currently the scales are still on site, but I am assuming that they will also be moved to a new location.
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I think that may be part of the cattle market which operated every Wednesday on Oxpens which was established or moved there in 1932 and was still in business to about 1975.It was great fun,the cattle and sheep and pigs were bought and sold and across the street in a separate building the poultry was sold.There were stalls selling all kinds of clothes,vegetables,kitchen gadgets, anything and everything. I looked up "cattle market oxford" and was surprised how old an institution it was.
The cattle market was here when I was living and at school in the city.
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