High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Opposite Christ Church, Oxford, England, is Alice`s Shop on St Aldate`s. It was formerly frequented in Victorian times by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Saw There, who used to buy sweets there. She lived at Christ Church with her father Henry Liddell, who was Dean of the College and Cathedral.