The Copper Kettle
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Introduction
This model was issued in 1998 as St Giles’ Cafe, a Collectors’ Club piece. On the tree-lined avenue of St Giles, it is opposite St John’s College - one of 39 that make up Oxford University.
The real life cafe, popular with students, has recently had a refit. The name “greasy spoon caff” comes from the all day breakfast fry-ups and chips with everything. Dining at The Copper Kettle promises to be a more refined experience!
52 St Giles is a Grade 2 listed Victorian building. Window mouldings and lintels appear to date from the Art Nouveau period of 1890-1910.
The World’s Oldest University
Around 700AD Frideswide, a Saxon princess and nun, founded a monastery. More followed and a university evolved in the 12th century due to their learned renown. Streets filled with rowdy scholars!
Today a romantic notion of the university lures tourists - golden buildings, dreaming spires, river punts and poetry. An Inspector Morse trail visits colleges and other Oxford locations in the famous TV series.
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Hazle Ceramics
The Copper Kettle
Limited Painting of 2
on Oxford St Giles
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The serene entrance and gatehouse to Trinity College, founded in 1555, is in fact just off bustling Broad Street.
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The front quadrangle of Balliol College, established in 1263. Seen from the main entrance which like Trinity is on Broad Street, the site of Hazle’s two Oxfam models.
The Eagle and Child Inn is a few doors away from St Giles’ Cafe. The Inklings literary set, with C S Lewis and Tolkien, met in the back Rabbit Room from the 1930s-60s.
Copperware, lined with tin, has great malleability and conductivity.