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Picture source: Stephen Harris

The Prince Of Wales was situated at 6 Charles Street. This pub is now in residential use.

This was an awful pub in 1967/68. Of the many pubs I went in during my four years in Oxford, this was undoubtedly the worst. It was always noisy and the Ind Coope bitter, good in most Oxford pubs, was terrible.

Paul Legon (March 2017)

Now converted into four flats but with the pub sign still affixed to the building, the Charles Street pub was built by Ind Coope in 1934 and later run by Halls before it closed in 1984. Despite living close by in the 1980s, I only ever visited a couple of times. Derek Honey’s book An Encyclopaedia of Oxford Pubs, Inns and Taverns, published in 1998, offers some interesting background – noting that it was dedicated to Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936. “During World War II the pub was a favourite meeting place for American servicemen and the girls who lived locally, and there were frequent fights between the ‘Yanks’ and the local men, usually over the women,” it says. It became a music pub in the 1950s, first jazz and later rock, but by the 1980s it had a reputation for unruliness, and was raided for drugs several times

Tony Goulding, Oxford Drinker

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