Escapade at 8 High Street has closed down, so there is a little less fun to go around. It was a gift shop selling jewellery, and candles and incence sticks and stone ornaments and colourful cards. There was a room downstairs with a glass counter where you could examine jewellery, and a back room up some steps where they kept second hand books, and adult games (some a little risky).

Another shop that recently closed was one of of the four shops on the Wootton Road. It sold live pets of the jungle variety: amphibians, spiders, chamileans, and insects. It has moved to the Cowley Road in Oxford.