Template:Did you know nominations/Clarendon Shopping Centre

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 00:48, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Clarendon Shopping Centre

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The old Clarendon Hotel

• ... that the Clarendon Hotel (pictured) in Oxford, demolished to make way for the Clarendon Shopping Centre, had had a cellar dating back to the twelfth century? Source: "One would never have guessed what we now know, what I have tried to show in this article, namely that this building contained the remains of a twelfth century cellar", Pantin, Oxoniensia
  • ALT1:... that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre, when it opened, as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"? Source: The Times, 9 January 1984, "Oxford Diary: Expiring Dreams"
  • ALT2:... that the oldest vaulted cellar in Oxford was demolished to make way for the Clarendon Shopping Centre? Source: "The earliest vaulted cellar in Oxford was under Woolworths in Cornmarket Street", Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire

• Reviewed: This is my first nomination, so I think I'm exempt? Would rather see at least one review through before trying my own.

Improved to Good Article status by YorkshireLad (talk). Self-nominated at 08:47, 17 October 2019 (UTC).

• GTG: GA, neutral, nicely written. All 3 hooks check out & pic ok to use. First hook with pic, or ALT1 without, seem best. Johnbod (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks. I did wonder if ALT1 was too negative… YorkshireLad (talk) 08:14, 19 October 2019 (UTC)