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Picture source: MJ Crook

The Carpenters Arms was situated on Botley Road. This pub is now used as a McDonalds restaurant.

In addition to the lounge at the front the pub had a smaller saloon at the back. There was a pool table around the years 1984 to 1985. The rear bar service area was connected to the main bar service area and so it required only bar staff. To get to the rear bar I think you had to walk out and round.

Rob Arnold (February 2024)

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Morrells Oxford Bitter £1.76 Whitbread Best Bitter £1.86 Morrells Graduate £2.06 Stowford Press Cider £2.10 Murphy's Stout £2.24 (9.ii.98) Aargh. It's full of lurid yellow lighting and very children-friendly restauranty. The facilities are predictably pristine and sparkling and had a pushchair left outside them. Fifteen degrees. It's sandwiched between West Way and a street with the marvellous name of Old Botley. They only do Morrells Oxford Bitter and Graduate on cask, but I've only had their Oxford Bitter, which was better than I remembered it. (1998-02-09)

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Frank & Bette Morris, publicans

Picture source: Movement80