A police officer and a nightwatchman saved the day when Taphouses’ music shop in Oxford caught fire late one evening. Pc Keith Jenkins on night patrol in the snow saw smoke billowing into the street and ran to the fire station to raise the alarm. The fire crew was just turning out having been alerted by a nightwatchman looking after neighbouring premises. The blaze at the shop in Magdalen Street was spotted at 10pm on January 2, 1962, but had started some hours before. The Oxford Mail reported: “Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought their way up two flights of stairs through thick smoke to reach the blaze.