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Upper Walkways of Oxford Road

This time what we see when we look up isn’t so much an architectural quirk, nor is it an example of street art but it’s the ghost of an idea that was never executed.

At various points along Oxford Road, the education mile, you can find recesses at first floor level that were intended, one day, to be the connecting points of pedestrian walkways. Pedestrians were to be put up in the air with a system of interconnecting overhead walkways linking the main buildings with their entrances at first floor level. Oxford Road, effectively, was a road atop a set of concrete stilts.

Wilson & Wormersley’s Oxford Road plans, 1960s

The image below is part of the MMU at the corner of Oxford Road and Cavendish. What was once intended to be a walkway

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