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Cricketers Arms

Date of photo: 2016

Picture source: T C


The Cricketers Arms was situated at 43 Iffley Road.  This ex-Morlands pub closed c2014 and is now used as a cocktail bar called The Mad Hatter.

Review from tantallon.org.uk:
Monday to Saturday 11am to 11pm
Sunday 12noon to 10.30pm
Food: 12pm to 2pm

Morland Original £1.70
Ruddles County £2.10
Grapefruit juice and soda 80p
50g bag of crisps (McCoy's) 40p (16.v.1998)

Under new management it says. If you've ever seen the new barman in "Men Behaving Badly" who has no idea of how to run a pub, you may find the experience of ordering a drink in here disconcertingly familiar.
Beforehand this was a reddy-peach coloured Morland pub offering pool and photos of cricketers and jazzplayers on the walls, and it's really much the same sort of thing now. I think the toy Bart Simpson behind the bar might be new. The tables are better arranged than they were, and like the Temple Bar round the corner, there's a television with the sound turned down and the subtitles turned up. Facilities blue and clean. (16.v.1998)
The former superb Cricketers Arms, also on Iffley Road, is now the Mad Hatter cocktail bar. Once my favourite pub, this busy two-bar Morland local has been ruined in my opinion. The stone-carved image of a cricketer on the wall is said to be of the great Australian Sir Donald Bradman, who played in the cricket ground opposite in the 1930s.
Tony Goulding, Oxford Drinker

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Name Dates Comments
Philip Morris 1950/1983 Born there.Grandparents (Eric & Rene Jones) were tenants from before it was rebuilt and my parents (Ray & Daphne Morris) took over around 1970. They were there until around 1984. It was a great place to be brought up with customers balanced between "town & gown" and fully integrated! Had darts and shove halfpenny in both the public and saloon bars. Many v happy memories.