Commerce
While it is dominated by the three Turl Street colleges, the street houses several shops, including a sports shop, a bar and restaurant (the Turl Street Kitchen), a costume-magic shop, an Oxfam shop, a number of jewellery and memorabilia shops, a cafe, a news agent/general store, a whisky shop, a shoe shop (Duckers, featured in Atonement), a picture-framing workshop, and the traditional gentleman's tailors, Walters of Oxford. The site now occupied by the Turl Street Kitchen was once the QI Building ("QI Oxford") (associated with the Quite Interesting television show).
The Turl Street colleges also have student housing above and around many of these shops.
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