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The Kings Arms was situated at 283 Banbury Road. Built in 1824 and rebuilt in 1978, this pub closed in 2006 and is now used as the Dancing Dragon, a Chinese cafe.

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Adnam's Bitter (cask) £1.60 Tetley (cask) £1.90 Wadworth 6X (cask) £2.10 Calder's Cream Ale £2.30 Guinness Stout £2.30 Strongbow Cider £2.20 (18.i.97) The first thing you notice, other than the big neon signs in the window saying BUDWEISER and MICHELOB, is a mini version of those huge rotating poster sites they have in market squares and the main routes in in big French towns and cities, with adverts for spirits. Lots of Jack Daniels posters up all over the place, which is a good clue to the customer base. It consists of girls in improbable shoes and young men with football shirts and earrings, who I think must have come from Cutteslowe. There is also a small contingent of presumably Cutteslovian men in their late thirties who wish to get a young woman in tow before the Friar Bacon comes to claim them. I should mention that there's big signs saying "8oz rump steak with chips and salad £4.99" all over the place, and, disturbingly, three ales on tap and a smaller range of lager than you would suspect. Apart from the clientele, the overall feel of the place is something like a service station on the M5. It seems to have been built from scratch very recently, and there's three exits, which is altogether a good thing. (Fieldwork: 1997-01-18)

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