Parks Road, Oxford area: showing geopraphy of the 1934 Bodleian library removal:

Phil’s History:

A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.

Pasted from an earlier page above:

"The caption in the middle of the page states: “200,00 Books: Removal of Science Library from the Bodleian, to New Library, Parks Road, August 1st to 24th 1934. 137 van-loads of books in 3 weeks. 16765s books per day. 17 men + motors. Strict sequence of books had to be maintained."

The above map does show the "Radcliffe Science Library" which, I presume, is the library which still (in 2018, 84 years after the AC&Co removal) houses the books which were removed from the Radcliffe Camera, which is not seen in the above map, but is behind the Sheldonian Theatre seen at the lower (south) end of the above map.

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Parks Road, Oxford area: showing geopraphy of the 1934 Bodleian library removal: