Oxford question

[venta]

Can anyone physically in Oxford city centre this weekend please verify for me exactly *where* the Chequers is? I know it's down a little alleyway off the High, and google maps puts it between Britannia and a jewellers. Are those shops still what they were when the little photocar googled its way past?

Don't make a special journey or anything, just if you're passing :)

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'm not physically on the High Street right now but I am fairly sure that what was Britannia is now Hotel Chocolat (trying to confirm this online: the Oxford High Street branch no longer appears on Britannia's branch finder, but a bit of Googling and cache-trawling suggests that it was 132 High Street, which is the address of Hotel Chocolat).

Also, the alleyway for the Chequers has a big white dog(?) statue above it, a chequered crest sticking out from it, and says "HISTORIC PUB" over the lintel -- I won't say "you can't miss it" because that's always fatal, but it's not too hard to find! :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks - you are indeed correct it's Hotel Chocolat. I'd rather give people a shop to aim for than say "you can't miss it" because that is, as you say, fatal!

[j4.livejournal.com]

If you gave me Hotel Chocolat to aim for, I'd probably forget all about the pub. ;-)