Castle Quay Shopping Centre

Castle Quay opened in 2003. The mall features stores such as Allsports, Hoi Polloi, Barratts Shoes, Officers Club, and Superdrug. Anchored by an Somerfield and Woolworths, Castle Quay had enjoyed success for a while. By 2007, Castle Quay began offering stores that are not known much at the time such as Jessops, Passion for Perfume, and Card Factory but by 2009, they too became more well known than ever with new stores opening up in shopping centres. Stores such as Adams Kids and Hoi Polloi don’t survive the surge so they moved to Oxford’s Westgate Centre. More stores such as Diamonds and Pearls, Pumpkin Patch, Nokia, and T-Mobile opened. It looks like the mall is getting out of it’s shadow. In 2012, The Discovery Store opened in the former Calendar Club space and some of the new stores that opened in 2009 such as Pumpkin Patch and Nokia moved to Oxford’s Westgate Centre. It looks like Westgate will Dominate the Oxfordshire Retail Market. The Gap, which had opened since 2003, moved to Westgate in early 2013. Officers Club, which had also opened since 2003, was downgraded to a Petroleum Outlet Store in 2009 before moving to Westgate as Officers Club in 2013. Both retail spaces are since merged to create Blue Inc. The orange space became EE in 2013 as Orange moved to Westgate and T-Mobile also moved to Westgate. The former T-Mobile space is quickly replaced by Glamour Forever. Jessops moved to Westgate in 2013 with Grape Tree replacing it along with the former Julian Graves unit which is vacant since 2012. JD Sports moved to Westgate and opened at Castle Quay in the former Nokia, Pumpkin Patch, Diamonds and Pearls, and The Discovery Store spaces in 2015. Their old unit was replaced by Hallowood Furniture and Flying Tiger. Linen’s Direct and Monsoon moved to Westgate in 2017. Their units later became Electromist and Hotter Shoes. With the PoundWorld and Druckers units moving to Westgate in 2018, their units became filled. In PoundWorld’s case, Bargain Buys took over and in Druckers case, Heavenly Deserts took over. Thorntons and Select moved to Westgate in May 2019. With both gone, The Ping Pong Parlour opened in June.