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Jno. Wickens’s Music Warehouse. Oxford (c. 1790)

John Wickens in Lincoln Lane near All Saints Church (now Lincoln College Library), announces himself purely a purveyor of musical instruments and publications. He is also known to have published The Oxford Ramble, a song. The piano depicted is a square piano. At this date Turl Street was called ‘Lincoln College Lane’ from the High Street to Ship Street and ‘The Turle’ from Ship Street to Broad Street.

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