So why is No 35 Wellington Square called The Pendulum? In 1976 two houses Nos 35 and 36, both owned by the university, were commandeered by Lady Weare, wife of the Rector of Exeter College, in order to provide much needed student accommodation right in the centre of Oxford. The students in No 34 called their house The Pit and had a brass plaque made. Not to be outdone, one of the housemates in No 35 painted a couple of bricks white, then inscribed them with No 35 The Pendulum, after the Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Pit and the Pendulum. After two years the university took the houses back and converted the houses into the offices of the University Department of Social Policy and Intervention. The students at No 36 had removed their brass plaque, but the painted name of No 35 remains to this day (a good advert for Humbrol paints). The front door has disappeared as the houses have been knocked through, but many passers by may wonder why No 35 The Pendulum is so called.

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