Live CCTV cameras show how busy Oxford streets are today

In April we showed pictures of usually rammed tourist sports deserted and empty as people stayed at home during the first lockdown. 

CCTV cameras outside of Oxford Martin School on Broad Street and Oxford Internet Institute, looking over St Giles, broadcast live online. 

On a typical morning, before the pandemic, the streets would be chock-a-block with cars and commutes in a rush to get to work. 

Screenshot from before pandemic 

But at the start of April, only weeks after the county was put on national lockdown, only one or two cars could be spotted on the live streams. 

CCTV in April 

At the time just one Ocado van, delivering shopping, was seen going past St Giles and just a few walkers in an hour. 

But now, the cameras this morning show the city getting back to a different normal with traffic on the roads and people walking in town. 

Oxfordshire has been put into Tier 2 of the new restrictions which means people cannot meet other people indoors and pubs and bars must close unless they are serving 'substantial meals' with alcohol. 

Non-essential retail, gyms and beauty salons reopened for the first time in a month on Wednesday and shoppers flooded back into the city. 

But will this weekend be the same? 

Here are some screenshots of the live public feeds this morning, at around 9am.