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39-571: Juxon Street is a street in the north of Jericho , an inner suburb of Oxford , England . To the east is a junction with Walton Street . To the north are St Sepulchre's Cemetery , Lucy's Eagle Ironworks (now residential), and beyond that Walton Well Road . To the west is the Oxford Canal and beyond that the Castle Mill Stream . To the south is most of the rest of the suburb of Jericho and central Oxford. Previously this area

78-608: A 1-mile children fun run, 5 km and 10 km run through Worcester College, the streets of Jericho, Port Meadow, Wolvercote and along the Thames River path. This is the largest fundraising event for St Barnabas Primary School with a message of inclusivity, encouraging healthy living and strengthening the community ties. Since 2023, St Barnabas Primary School, St Barnabas Church and the Jericho Community Association have joined efforts to create Jericho Fest with

117-582: A developer but has yet to be developed. The Jericho Wharf Trust has been negotiating with the developer to develop the site as a focus for community activities including a new boatyard and community centre. One member of the Jericho Wharf Trust is Jericho Community Boatyard Ltd which has been set up to restore services for Oxford boaters. Next to the Castlemill Boatyard was the old ferry house and chain ferry which allowed access to

156-411: A leaden, blue, purple, black, or deep brown tint according to the complexion of the individual, varying in shade with the intensity of the attack. The fingers and toes are reduced in size, the skin and soft parts covering them are wrinkled, shrivelled and folded. The nails put on a bluish pearly white; the larger superficial veins are marked by flat lines of a deeper black; the pulse becomes either small as

195-551: A popular area for student and London commuter accommodation. Reports from the 1870s suggest that early homes in Jericho were built with very poor drainage. Low-lying land and lack of basic drainage in these homes would result in flooding. Flooding, open sewers, and overcrowding resulted in deaths from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery , with five out of eleven typhoid deaths in 1873 originating from Jericho. Jericho residents also accounted for twenty two cases of cholera during

234-817: A population of 650,000), with about 100,000 deaths in all of France. In 1832, the epidemic reached Quebec , Ontario , and Nova Scotia in Canada and Detroit and New York City in the United States. It reached the Pacific coast of North America between 1832 and 1834. The pandemic prompted the passage of the landmark Public Health Act 1848 ( 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63) and the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts, 1848 and 1849, in England. In mid-1832, 57 Irish immigrants died who had been laying

273-461: A result of this pandemic , including many British soldiers , which attracted European attention. This was the first of several cholera pandemics to sweep through Asia and Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This first pandemic spread over an unprecedented range of territory, affecting many countries throughout Asia. Historians believe that the first pandemic had lingered in Indonesia and

312-463: A stretch of railroad called Duffy's Cut , 30 miles west of Philadelphia. They had all contracted cholera. During the second pandemic, the scientific community varied in its beliefs about the causes of cholera. In France, doctors believed cholera was associated with the poverty of certain communities or poor environment. Russians believed the disease was contagious, although doctors did not understand how it spread. The United States believed that cholera

351-582: A strong ley (lye); drains and privies thoroughly cleansed by streams of water and chloride of lime...free and continued admission of fresh air to all parts of the house and furniture should be enjoined for at least a week". Based on the reports of two English doctors who had observed the epidemic in Saint Petersburg , the board of health published a detailed description of the disease's symptoms and onset: Giddiness, sick stomach, nervous agitation, intermittent, slow, or small pulse, cramps beginning at

390-455: A thread, and scarcely vibrating, or else totally extinct. The skin is deadly cold and often damp, the tongue always moist, often white and loaded, but flabby and chilled like a piece of dead flesh. The voice is nearly gone; the respiration quick, irregular, and imperfectly performed. The patient speaks in a whisper. He struggles for breath, and often lays his hand on his heart to point out the seat of his distress. Sometimes there are rigid spasms of

429-541: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jericho, Oxford Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford . It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal , Worcester College , Walton Street and Walton Well Road . Located outside the old city wall , it was originally a place for travellers to rest if they had reached the city after the gates had closed. The name Jericho may have been adopted to signify this 'remote place' outside

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468-518: Is also in the neighbourhood. The Oxford Synagogue (one of the few in England with more than one denomination of Judaism worshipping in the same house) and the Oxford Jewish Centre are in Jericho. Castlemill Boatyard is a 160-year-old wharf on the canal in Jericho, previously owned by British Waterways and now closed. British Waterways sold the site to a company that subsequently went into administration. The land has been bought by

507-542: The 1832 epidemic . In the 1950s, Jericho was briefly a red light area, and in the early 1960s there were plans to demolish it and replace it with light industrial units and new housing. However, many people objected and campaigned to save this historic area, rallied by local city councillor Olive Gibbs and the Jericho Residents Association. As a result, the plans were changed. Houses beyond repair were demolished, but many others were upgraded in

546-538: The November Uprising between 16 May and 20 August 1831; 4,734 people fell ill and 2,524 died. The epidemic of cholera brought to Poland and East Prussia by Russian soldiers forced Prussian authorities to close their borders to Russian transports. There were Cholera Riots in the Russian Empire caused by the government's anticholera measures. By early 1831, frequent reports of the spread of

585-520: The Phoenix , showing first-run and art house films. In 2017 Jericho was ranked number 11 in a list of the UK’s ‘most hip ’ destinations. The ranking was compiled by TravelSupermarket , and took into account vegan cafes, independent bike shops, vinyl record stores and independent coffee shops. In 2018 the suburb dropped to number 20 on the list, although it scored full marks, for the second year running, in

624-668: The Jericho Street Fair, Run Jericho and St Barnabas Day Mass all occurring in the same weekend in June. Appropriately for its biblical name, Jericho is also known for its places of worship. The Church of England parish church is the Anglo-Catholic St Barnabas Church , next to the Oxford Canal . St Sepulchre's Cemetery lies off Walton Street, which has no associated church and has lost its chapel. The Albert Street Chapel ( Reformed Baptist )

663-738: The Oxford English Dictionary was being collated and printed. 1826%E2%80%931837 cholera pandemic The first cholera pandemic (1817–24) began near Kolkata and spread throughout Southeast Asia to the Middle East, eastern Africa, and the Mediterranean coast. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went farther; it reached as far as China and the Mediterranean Sea before receding. Hundreds of thousands of people died as

702-700: The Philippines in 1830. Although not much is known about the journey of the cholera pandemic in east India, many believe that this pandemic began, like the first, with outbreaks along the Ganges Delta in India. From there, the disease spread along trade routes to cover most of India. By 1828, the disease had traveled to China. Cholera was also reported in China in 1826 and 1835, and in Japan in 1831. In 1829, Iran

741-611: The River Thames or leave it. The local cinema has seen a number of incarnations. It started in 1913 as the North Oxford Kinema . In 1925, it was renamed The Scala . In 1970 it was split in two and became Studios 1 and 2, one of which was well known for showing softcore pornography. In 1977, the cinema revived again after being taken over by the London company Contemporary Entertainments and acquired its current name,

780-589: The South Oxford Canal towpath and then on to Port Meadow and the banks of the River Thames by foot. The ferry has now been replaced by a footbridge and the site is now the College Cruisers Wharf accessed via Combe Road off Canal Street . It is a busy thriving hire boat base and working boatyard providing for the needs of local and visiting narrow boats. The last and first service stop for essential services for boats before they cruise

819-429: The community website, Jericho Online, and organises the annual Jericho Street Fair which is held in mid-June each year, around the feast day of the patron saint Barnabas (11 June). It is also the focus for other community activities and has also been very active in campaigning for responsible development of the canal-side land behind St Barnabas Church, on a part of which it plans to build a new Community Centre as one of

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858-563: The end of Juxon Street. Juxon Street features in the 2003 book Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman . Lyra visits the character Sebastian Makepeace who lives on the north side of Juxon Street in a house at the end of the street near the Eagle Ironworks and the Oxford Canal. 51°45′38″N 1°16′07″W  /  51.760503°N 1.268676°W  / 51.760503; -1.268676 This Oxfordshire location article

897-416: The four members of the Jericho Wharf Trust. Jericho is served by a primary school, St Barnabas Primary School, a large primary school where over 50% speak English as a second language. Since 2011, parents and teaching staff from the parent teacher association (PTA) at the school have organised a wildly popular multi-terrain run called Run Jericho, which takes place in June every year. Run Jericho features

936-559: The late 1960s and early 1970s with the help of council grants. This encouraged many young professionals and families to move in; subsequently Jericho became one of Oxford's most sought-after areas. Large council and social housing developments were built in the 1970s and 1980s. Jericho retains a strong community spirit. The Jericho Community Association runs the Jericho Community Centre in Canal Street , maintains

975-408: The legs, thighs, and loins. The secretion of urine is totally suspended; vomiting and purgings, which are far from being the most important or dangerous symptoms, and which in a very great number of cases of the disease, have not been profuse, or have been arrested by medicine early in the attack, succeed. It is evident that the most urgent and peculiar symptom of this disease is the sudden depression of

1014-418: The lowest sort of brazen female as ever lifted her petticoats". London-born Australian author Pip Williams ' second book, The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023) is set in the then working-class suburb of Jericho. The two main characters – twin sisters Peggy and Maude Jones – work in the bindery at Oxford University Press and live in a narrowboat on Oxford Canal during the period when WW1 was breaking out, and

1053-421: The north side of the street was bought by Lucy's Eagle Ironworks also just to the north to house its staff. Many of the houses have also been for rented to students. Some houses at the west end of the street were demolished and flats was constructed in their place. It is now a popular inner-city residential street with high prices and rents in the area. There used to be a ferry (with ferry house) and coal wharfs at

1092-643: The pandemic in Russia prompted the British government to issue quarantine orders for ships sailing from Russia to British ports. By late summer, with the disease appearing more likely to spread to Britain, its board of health, in accordance with the prevailing miasma theory , issued orders recommending as a preventive the burning of "decayed articles, such as rags, cordage, papers, old clothes, hangings...filth of every description removed, clothing and furniture should be submitted to copious effusions of water, and boiled in

1131-516: The rest of Europe, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. By 1831, the epidemic had infiltrated Russia's main cities and towns. Russian soldiers brought the disease to Poland in February 1831. There were reported to have been 250,000 cases of cholera and 100,000 deaths in Russia. In 1831, it is estimated that up to 100,000 deaths occurred in Hungary . The cholera epidemic struck Warsaw during

1170-403: The tops of the fingers and toes, and rapidly approaching the trunk, give the first warning. Vomiting or purging, or both these evacuations of a liquid like rice-water or whey, or barley-water, come on; the features become sharp and contracted, the eye sinks, the look is expressive of terror and wildness; the lips, face, neck, hands, and feet, and soon after the thighs, arms, and whole surface assume

1209-414: The vital powers: proved by the diminished action of the heart, the coldness of the surface and extremities, and the stagnant state of the whole circulation. From September 1831 to January 1832, a catastrophic cholera epidemic ravaged the lower Euphrates and Tigris regions of what is now Iraq and Iran . In Shushtar , Iran, about half of the city's inhabitants died from cholera. The Mandaean community

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1248-575: The wall. As of February 2021, the population of the Jericho and Osney wards was 6,995. Originally an industrial area, Jericho grew because of its proximity to the Oxford Canal , which arrived in 1790. The Eagle Ironworks (now redeveloped into apartments), wharves and the Oxford University Press were based there and its residential streets are mostly 'two-up, two-down' Victorian workers' houses. With back streets of 19th century terraced housing and many restaurants, it has become

1287-591: The water-dwelling "Gyptians". He has been a vocal advocate of the residential boaters' fight to save the Castlemill Boatyard. In The Whore's Asylum by Katy Darby (Penguin Group, 2012), the "home for indigent whores" is in Victor Street and the young doctor attending their special medical needs lives in Canal Street. Jericho in 1887 is described (probably inaccurately) as "haunted by drunkards, thieves, and

1326-607: The ‘creative capital’ category, which concerned co-working and creative spaces. Thomas Hardy 's novel Jude the Obscure has a scene set in St Barnabas Church and it is likely that the suburb named 'Beersheba' in the novel is based on Jericho. As an homage to Hardy, in 1996, one of Jericho's pubs was renamed Jude the Obscure. The first episode of the long-running ITV drama series Inspector Morse , starring British actor John Thaw , called " The Dead of Jericho " ,

1365-717: Was apparently infected with cholera from Afghanistan. Cholera reached the southern tips of the Ural Mountains in 1829. On 26 August 1829, the first cholera case was recorded in Orenburg with reports of outbreaks in Bugulma (7 November), Buguruslan (5 December), Menzelinsk (2 January 1830), and Belebey (6 January). With 3,500 cases including 865 fatal ones in Orenburg province, the epidemic stopped by February 1830. The second cholera pandemic spread from Russia to

1404-540: Was brought by recent immigrants, specifically the Irish, and epidemiologists understand they were carrying disease from British ports. Lastly, the British thought the disease might rise from divine intervention. Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland wrote a stage play inspired by the pandemic, which had reached Norway . In The Indian Cholera ( Den indiske Cholera , 1835), he set his play in Colonial India , lambasting

1443-727: Was hit particularly hard, and all of their priests died in the plague. Yahya Bihram told Julius Heinrich Petermann that there were only 1,500 Mandaean survivors after the plague. The epidemic reached Great Britain in October 1831, appearing in Sunderland , where it was carried by passengers on a ship from the Baltic. It also appeared in Gateshead and Newcastle . In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims; in Paris, 20,000 died (out of

1482-767: Was part of the Walton Manor farm owned by St John's College, Oxford . The farm was sold the site was unoccupied until 1860 when the college architect, William Wilkinson , was commissioned to lay out the northern part of the estate. The street was named after William Juxon , who was President of St John's College from 1621 to 1633. He was also the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury . Building began in Juxon Street in 1876. The houses were designed to provide small homes for middle-class families. Much of

1521-467: Was partially filmed in the streets of Jericho, notably Combe Road ('Canal Reach' in the drama). It also featured the exterior of the Bookbinders Arms public house on the corner of Victor Street. The spin-off show Lewis also has stories based around the same area. Philip Pullman set parts of his novels Northern Lights and Lyra's Oxford in Jericho. In the books, Jericho is home to

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