Soho Terrace- Home Of Marlow Station Masters

 Two of Marlow's early Station Masters lived in Soho Terrace, Beaumont Rise. George Thomas Broad was resident 1881 until he was promoted to Master of Leamington Station in 1884 and left. He was stationed at Marlow from 1878 and may in fact have lived at Soho Terrace right from the beginning. I am only certain of his address 1881-84. 

When he left Marlow the Reading Mercury said he had won many friends by his "energy and courtesy" in his role.

George's own father had been a Station Master too.

After George went to Leamington he suffered serious illness and went blind. He was forced to retire early and died in 1899.

His replacement at Marlow Henry Yeo also lived at Soho Terrace until he left the town in 1893, after ill health forced his retirement. 

Both men were lodgers with Edward and Hannah Broad. If they were relatives of George Broad it is not obvious to me how. Edward was a carpenter.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

Sources:

1881 and 1891 census of Great Marlow. 1881 transcribed by me from microfilm. 1891 from Familysearch website ran by the LDS / Intellectual Reserve Inc. Accessed March 2021.

Reading Mercury 30th August 1884, South Bucks Standard 17th November 1899. Newspaper copies held at the British Library archives and accessed by me from the BNA March 2021.

Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire, by Kelly's Directories Limited 1883. Digitized by Google. Accessed March 2021.

Allnatt Grave - Hurley and Allnutt - Great Marlow

 

Grave of Ann Mary Allnatt, daughter of JN° [Jonathan] & Frances Allnatt, d. February 24th 1785. In Hurley Parish Churchyard, above

Above and centre, Allnutt grave, All Saints Great Marlow.  Catharine Allnutt, wife of Henry Allnut. d.December ??. There is second person on grave but details unreadable other than died aged 30.  The word "mother" can also be seen. Unfortunately the grave is leaning.

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Beckford Grave, Hurley

 

Grave of Benjamin Beckford d. Feb 4 1890 age 56. Weathered quite badly. 

Hurley Churchyard. 

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1833 Parochial Assessment For Great Marlow Part Four

 My family has the original 1833 handwritten working notebooks used to compile this along with associated correspondence. They are old and faded so I am putting it up here in stages starting with the assessment for houses and buildings. The purpose of the data collection was to readjust local tax rates for 1834. The books contain some pencilled in additional information for a few years after their initial completion. If any appear for this section of the assessment I will indicate so below. I am uploading assessment parts in the order they chime in with research I am doing.

Transcribed by Charlotte Day.

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West Street Continued

I give the information thus:

Name

Property

Annual value of it

Any notes of mine are in square brackets.

Ralph Spicer [a lawyer and insurance agent. Later lived High Street].

Dwelling house, stable, chaise house, offices, yard and garden

£30

*****

William George Ellson [rented this property from Richard Lovegrove of Maidenhead. William was a watch and clock maker. He went bankrupt].

House yard and garden

£9

*****

James Thomas Lovegrove [he was a plumber. He moved premises in the next few years to the other side of the street - see here. Earlier in 1833 David Lovegrove lived in this property. It was owned by James's uncle Richard Lovegrove of Maidenhead who was also a plumber. James was later one of the executors and trustees of the will of Richard's wife Catherine and of the will of James's near neighbour in West Street butcher Rachel Hall who is mentioned below. See also this post for his sister Mary and his involvement in settling her estate].

House, workshop, yard and shop with lofts

£14

*****

Thomas Reeves [a cooper]

House, workshop, yard and garden

£15

*****

Henry ?Huysey ?Hussey [a grocer]

House and shop

£8

*****

Mrs Elizabeth Silver [she was the widow of Richard Silver a childbed linen manufacturer. His will is transcribed on the blog here]

House and garden

£14

*****

John Winch Burnham  [a stationer and Baptist  minister. Died 1847]

House yard and stable

£10

*****

Rachel Hall [ran a butcher's shop. She is the subject of a biography on this blog here].

House, shop, stable, slaughterhouse, yard, sheds, garden and offices

£20

*****

Late Richard Way [see previous part of this assessment for another entry for Richard Way. He had moved elsewhere in West Street]

Dwelling house and garden

£14

*****

Widow Clark [probably Mary, widow of William. Her lodger a Mr Jarvis, who worked for Samuel Clark next door committed suicide by slitting his throat in her kitchen 1831. Unfortunately the very bloody scene was first discovered by a little girl].

A cottage

£5

*****

Samuel Clark [a tailor but this property was later a butchers ran by Clark family members]

Dwelling house, offices and garden

£14

*****

Late James Daley

Dwelling house garden and bakehouse

£24

*****

John Sadler [he was a butcher and possibly also the " Mr Sadler, butcher" who was one of the parish constables in 1836. Still in these premises 1840s].

House, offices, yard and garden

£10

*****

Richard Smith [he was a boot and shoemaker, resident in this property for many years. More on him here].

House and garden

£7

*****

Joseph Mead [he was a painter and glazier]

Cottage

£5

To be Continued....

Please use the Person Index drop down menu to see other instances of these people being mentioned on the blog.

More West Street related posts can be found listed here

Will Summary Ann Webb of Great Marlow

 Ann Webb. Widow*. Proved 1771.

Says sick in body but of sound and disposing mind.

To daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Sneath surgeon of Great Marlow, all ready money, notes for money, bills, bonds, stocks, household furniture, wearing apparel and all other personal property after funeral expenses and debts paid.

William Sneath as above executor.

Will witnessed by Henry Allnutt, attorney and Elizabeth B...y testator's servant. The latter made her mark only.

*Ann was the widow of butcher Joseph Webb who died in 1756. He left her their home on the corner of West Street and the High Street next to the Coach and Horses but her son in law William Sneath organised the sale of it for her two years later.

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Thomas Styles Grave and Research

 

Thomas was the minister of the Congregational Church AKA Salem Chapel or Independent Chapel in Quoiting Square, between 1825 and 1863.

On the 1833 Parochial assessment he is living in Chapel Street, next door to one of his prominent congregation members Samuel Washbourne who had both a house and a manufactory dedicated to baby linen on his own premises. Thomas occupied a house and garden with an assessed annual value of £12. Samuel would move in the next few years to a house right by that church. 

In 1839 the first stone of new church building was laid by Rev John Burnet of Camberwell. Despite atrocious weather, attendance was large. Minister Thomas Styles kicked off the event with a hymn, 3 psalms and a "solemn and impressive prayer", before all decamped to a spacious tent to hear further addresses. The words of Thomas and the Rev. Burnell were, according to contemporary reports, "gladdening and inspiring to a large company" - who were probably a little soggy at this point. 

The new building was ready in 1840. Thomas Styles took out a notice in the Reading Mercury to tell the public that his "neat and commodious place of worship, denominated Salem Chapel, will be opened by Divine permission on Wednesday the 1st July 1840". Three sermons would be preached that day in aid of the building fund. Afterwards there was to be a fundraising dinner at the Town Hall. Price 2s 6d.

In 1854 Thomas married a much younger woman, Eliza Ball. Some of his congregation left because of this, hiring their own building for separate worship having failed in attempts to force him to resign. In 1861 Joseph Wright Morgan went as far as to build their own meeting room- the so called lecture room in St Peters Street, now the Masonic centre. If you have ever wondered at the buuldings quasi chapel like appearance, that is the reason why. How this can have made the minister and his wife feel can only be imagined.  But Thomas had many supporters including ministers of other Independent places of worship locally. The Bucks Chronicle, while noting that the wedding of Thomas had caused "much excitement", was clearly supportive too. They branded those who had left the church as those who would be "more than his master" and said the events had inspired "liberty minded and liberty loving gentleman" of the district to get up a testimonial, in part to make up for a potential reduction in income caused by a diminished congregation.

In 1855 the testimonial to show support and sympathy for Thomas was presented to him in the Sunday schoolroom. They gifted him £30, it  also acting as a wedding present.  When Thomas retired he had an annual income of the same sum so that £30 testimonial was worth a great deal. It was noted that donations were not limited to those attending his chapel.

Prominent congregation member Isaac Wane of Barmoor Farm and Red Barn farms lead support for Thomas. In 1860, things would come to a head again. The Rev J Rowland of Henley, accompanied by one of his Deacons, was called to the chapel in his capacity as member of the Bucks and Berks association of Independent Churches and Ministers. He said their attention had been drawn to rumours that not only did Thomas wish to resign, but that his congregation wished to see him go. Thomas replied that he had no knowledge that his ministry was regarded as unsatisfactory, and he would call a special meeting to get to the bottom of the issue. This followed in September 1860 with Sunday School superintendent Mr Fullicks in the chair. Isaac Wane immediately submitted a resolution that far from wishing Thomas to leave, they would earnestly entreat him to continue his labours. This was rapidly seconded and when put to the meeting as a whole, it was found there was not one voice out of the 100 or so present to dissent. Thomas did resign at last in 1863. 

He continued to live with Eliza in Marlow until his death in 1881 age 83. He was described then in obituaries as a beloved, highly respected and eloquent preacher. He was followed as minister by Andrew Mearns.

Eliza moved back to Burnham in Bucks where her parents came from. But after the loss of these and that of her married sister, Eliza decided to return to Marlow. She initially maintained her own household but then went to lodge with the Death family who ran a bakery in West Street. (Elizabeth and Ernest) She was receiving £15 a year from the Ministers Retiring Fund at this point. In her widowhood Eliza chose to attend the Baptist Chapel in Glade Road rather than her husband's old place of ministry. She was much involved in the Baptist Sunday School there. 

She died in 1895 following years of poor health. As her death was sudden it was the subject of an inquest. At this event it was revealed Eliza did not much like any doctors and certainly would not be treated by any Marlow man. A bran and turpentine poultice on the chest was all she would consent to try to treat her chronic bronchitis.

The death was ruled natural.

For more on fellow congregational minister Andrew Mearns, see here

Please also use the Person Index drop down menu to find people of interest to you.

Post researched and written by Charlotte Day with additional research by Kathryn Day. 

Sources:

1833 Parochial assessment, original handwritten notebooks held by my family and transcribed by me. These are being slowly transcribed onto this blog.

The Congregationist (journal) Volume 10 p891. Digitized by Google. Accessed March 2021. [Andrew Mearns info] 

The following newspaper copies held at the British Library Archives and accessed via the BNA March 2021=

Reading Mercury 6th Jan 1855. [Testimonial info] and 27th June 1840 [Church opening]

South Bucks Standard 9th and 15th February 1895. [Long details about the inquest into Eliza Styles]

Windsor and Eton Express 13th July 1839 [first stone laid], Maidenhead Advertiser 16 March 1881 [Thomas obituary], Bucks Chronicle 25th November 1860 [Resignation sought]

GRO Marriage Registration Index.

1851-91 Censuses, transcribed by me from microfilm except 1881 which was from Familysearch.org. Accessed February 2020.

A Portrait of Christ Church 1693-2003 by Jean Ashford, 2003. [Info on years of Thomas's ministry]. Thanks to Martin Ashford for a copy of this book.

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A post on Thomas's successor Andrew Mearns is available here

And one on the Morgans here

A post on Issac Wane is available here

Another of the church's Ministers George Edwards had a lot of trouble with his congregation too. You can read about it here

Marlow's 100+ Beer Retailers - A-z

Updated January 2024

I list here 115 (and counting!) historic watering holes that existed pre 1920. When a post has been published on this blog focusing on one of these, either the historic pub as a whole or a family who ran it, I will come back to this post and add in the link. You can also use the Pub Related menu find a longer list of posts featuring any of the pubs below including posts where the pub is not the main focus of the post but gets an interesting mention.

Unless stated all premises are in Great Marlow proper but this post also covers some outlying parts of Great Marlow Parish like Bovingdon Green as well as Little Marlow. It does not cover Lane End or Bisham. I do have a lot of research about Lane End pubs which will come online over the course of 2021. See the Pub Related option or Nearby Places Menu to see what Lane End pub content is already up on the blog. 

The date next to each pub is when I personally have found a first reference to it but I have a pile of notes to wade through going back over a decade of research so these dates are not by any means the end word on it. I only give a date if I have myself seen historic evidence for it. I do not include reputed dates to keep things simple. 

Ongoing research - not all have a date next to their name yet and not all pubs are necessarily listed yet. More pre 1800 inns will follow. 

See at the end of the post for premises with known certain location but no as yet known premises name.

Sources: Buckinghamshire Archives, National Archives, business papers, censuses, wills (I have transcribed dozens from the National Archives), trade directories from the University of Leicester, private letters, original parochial assessment notebooks owned by my family and transcribed by me, censuses transcribed by me from microfilm, court cases and more. 

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Albert,  Moor End Common, see also the Prince Albert.

Alma, Dean Street. 1830. Landlord listing here

Anchor, Dean Street, mainly a licensed lodging house later. C1841-1876 at least. See also Crown and Anchor, it is not the same premises. Landlord listing and history of the Anchor here.

Angel, High Street 1551+ later called the King's Head. Still there 1653 when it's owned by John Moore senior, and believed to be sold by his brother Robert on former's death in 1673, to Thomas Winckle. (Will of Robert Moore, National Archives) In two tenements 1735. 

Antelope, alternative name for the Roebuck.

Arms, The - brief name change for the Verney Arms. 

Bank of England AKA Ye Olde Bank of England AKA The Bank, Dean Street. 1840. New built then but nothing to say not on site of older premises. Landlord listing here

Barge Pole, Church Passage. 1833. Closed 1873. Historic landlords here

Bear 

1.) High Street. 1614 -1735 at least. Landlords listing here

2.) Chapel Street 1830+. Primarily a lodging house later in the century.  List of landlords for this location here

Black Boy

1 High Street, West side. 1602+ Converted into malt house by George Bruere esq by 1735. 

 2. Church Passage From 1780 (at least) to 1872. Historic landlords here

Black Horse

1.) Chapel Street. 1833+. Closed 1929. List of landlords here. Possibly at two different locations within Chapel Str. 

2.) Little Marlow. 1887.

Black Lion, Well End. 1839 is my first reference but it is believed to be far older - list of landlords here

Blacksmith's Arms

1.) Handy Cross. 1847. Landlords listing here

2.) Well End, Little Marlow 1890. Closed 1933.

There was a Jolly Blacksmiths at Lane End which sometimes was also referred to as the Blacksmiths Arms.

Blue Banner

1.) St Peter's Street. 1833. Last known mention at this location 1862. Also a grocers shop and tailor's premises (yes at same time. Few small pubs like this generated income enough on their own to support even the thriftiest family!) . Owned until 1850 by Samuel Barnes, ardent political supporter of the Clayton's.

2.) West End [West Street, though more Henley Road in this case]1889 but said to be well established then. Looks to be very close to the modern Hand and Flowers but is not the same premises. Definitely on that side of the road, said to be about a quarter of a mile from The Red Lion.

Blue Flag AKA the Old Blue Flag, Handy Cross. 1833. Note: this was also a blacksmith's premises. History and landlord listing here. There was also a Blue Flag at Cadmore End.

Bonnet So Blue AKA the Bonnet O' Blue, The Blue Bonnets, West End / West Street. More info here, landlords here

Bowl and Pin. 1773 first mention, but said to be well established by then. Occupied the former "Old Bridge House", St Peters Street which belonged to the Bridge wardens. This was not the same as the now existing Old Bridge House. Demolished 1790. Seems to have been a good sized premises.

Brewery Tap. 1868. Taproom of the brewery.  Charles Edward Gibbons in charge 1872. 

The Brick Kiln. Moor Common. 1880.

Bricklayer's Arms. Chapel Street. 1831. List of landlords here. 

Bull Head. High Street. 1628. John Clarke landlord 1686. Premises still there in 1717 though then it was part empty with the rest let to Mr Richard Cotterell. He apparently occupied the whole in 1704. Described as two tenements 1735. 

Carpenter's Arms, Spittal Street. 1830. List of landlords  here

Carrier's Arms, Wycombe Road. 1848?. Briefly named instead the Star Of The Town, possibly giving rise to Star Meadow by it. (A beer house name inspired it seems by the launch of the Star of The Thames - see here ) Closed 1939. Historic landlords here, plans to move it (or its licence) here

Chairmaker's Arms, Dean Street. 1878. For Sale 1897. Also one of these Lane End. History and landlord listing here

Chequer And Anchor - 1809. Location uncertain. Perhaps Crown and Anchor meant? Or the Chequers? However similarly named pubs existing at the same time is a Marlow speciality! 

Chequers AKA Chequers Inn AKA Chequers Hotel, High Street. 1833. But older. Early spelling: Checkers. Land lord listing here

Cherry Tree, Dean Street. 1830?  Also a doss house. Probably earlier in that capacity. Really did have a cherry tree in the yard originally, in fact a whole orchard was at one time behind the premises. Have ruled out this being the Royal Oak Dean Street that appears on the Parish Assessment of 1833. Landlord listing here. 

Clayton Arms, Oxford Road. 1838. There was also one at Lane End. A list of landlords of this Marlow pub with historic timeline can be found here, post about temperance meetings held outside here, and the Clayton's slate clubs and benefit societies here

Coach and Horses

1.) West Street 1783. Landlord listing  here

2.) Bovingdon Green (small beerhouse). Newly built in 1836.

Compasses, Dean Street. 1861.  Originally the Three Compasses but often shortened. A post about the Carr family of this pub is available here

Compleat Angler, AKA Angler's Hotel AKA Angler's Inn AKA The Anglers   Other side Marlow Bridge. Technically Bisham but more often referred to as Marlow! 1766 but definitely much earlier. Occasionally The Jolly Anglers (multiple sources): Post about Cres(s)well family who ran it for half a century here, Biography of landlord Charles Miller Foottit here , Biography of landlady Mary Ann Parslow here, landlord listing  here, history in 1900's here

Crooked Billet, Sheepridge, Little Marlow (also given as Flackwell Heath) 1860, but older as licenced premises.  Historic landlords / history post here. 

Cross Keys, Spittal Street. An inn existed of that name 1764 but I am not certain it was in Spittal Street as it was by 1834. See post on 1700s landlord Sylvester Law's will here. Historic landlords listing here. Biography of landlord's daughter Nellie Creswell, amateur Victorian sportswoman here

Crown, Little Marlow. There was also a Crown Inn Lane End.

Crown and Anchor, Oxford Road. 1833. See also The Anchor. List of landlords here

Crown and Broad Arrow later the Lower Crown, High Street. 1691 but gone by 1830. See post on the Crown Inns of Marlow here and also will of William Dark here.. Landlord listing here

Crown and Cushion, Dean Street. 1835. List of landlords here and info on Frederick and Harriet Brookes here

Crown Inn later Crown Hotel originally the Upper Crown* Market Place.  . For more info see here, and landlord listing here A post about the Crown fire and the tragedy of Susan West land lady, can be found Here

Dog and Badger, Medmenham. 1833. but much older.  Landlord listing here

Duke of Cambridge, Queens Road. Can also be described as in New Road, the earliest name for Queen's Road, and as in Marefield which is the area of Marlow that Queen's Road was cut through. 1866. Landlord listing here (NB Several other roads in Marlow have been known as New Rd)

Duke's Head, West Street. On Oxford Road turning side of street. 1761.

Elephant and Castle, Dean Street. 1833. All about landlord Eusebius Windsor here

Feathers. High Street. 1686.

Ferry Boat AKA Ferry Boat Hotel, Medmenham. 1833. Landlord listing here

Ferry Hotel, Spade Oak AKA Ye Ferry Hotel. 1889. See above also. 

Fighting Cocks, Dean Street. From at least 1840. Landlord listing here

Fishermen's Retreat, St Peter Street. Opened 1873 in a converted house after the licensee William Sparkes moved in from the Barge Pole in Church Passage which had been sold by the property owner and was likely to be demolished. New premises forcibly closed 1915 as fully licensed house, continues as hotel. Often given as Fisherman's Retreat. Landlord listing here which also includes  links to posts about the Sparkes family. 

Fountain Head, High Street. AKA The Fountain. 1833. Where the Hog's Head/The Old Brewery pub is now but that is a modern building. Became a lodging house later, briefly. Some landlords listed here Very close to Three Tuns in it's High Street location. 

Fox, West St. 1833. Think this became the White Lion before 1861 but possibly with an in between period of being non licenced premises.

Fox and Pheasant. Dean Street. 1860. Very likely older.  

George Inn, The - 1721, unknown street location currently. See also George and Dragon. 

George and Dragon, Causeway AKA The George. New name for the Roebuck 1835. Not the same as the earlier George Inn. May also be a much earlier unrelated George and Dragon in the High Street. List of landlords can be found here Brief history of premises here Grave of landlady Annie Moon here

Greyhound Inn AKA Greyhound Hotel, Spittal Street. 1819. List of landlords here

Gunmakers Arms - 1660's. 

Hand and Flowers AKA Hand of Flowers, Henley Road. 1869. But probably considerably older, not necessarily under this name all the time.

Hare and Hounds, Red Pits. 1847. Landlords and timeline here.

Harrow. 1843. Top end of West Street, probably in fact what we would call Henley Road. That this is an earlier name for the Hand and Flowers is not impossible. Samuel was in his premises at least 1841-51 and may have been selling beer there earlier too. Later references to The Harrow at Chapel End have been confirmed by us to refer to The Plough. 

Hope, High Street. 1850. Historic landlords here

Horns, Chapel Street. 1831. Landlord listing here

Jolly Cricketers, Bovingdon Green. 1830. AKA The Cricketers Arms. Information about this pub in the 1800s is included in the Bovingdon Green history post here and landlord listing here

Jolly Maltsters, Dean Street. 1823. Historic landlords listings here

King's Arms, High Street, East side 1681, not same as Kings Head. 

Kings Head

1.) Great Marlow High Street. 1687. Last heard of 1717. Was close to the Three Tuns. Formerly called the Angel. Will of one time landlady Joan Pomfret / Pomfrett here. She was also at the Three Tuns probably.

2.) Little Marlow.

Mint, Dean Street. 1850. Forcibly closed 1919. Historic landlords here

Nag's Head, Dean Street. 1845. See here for more on this pub including historic landlords. Election fraud case involving landlord Thomas Frith here

New Inn, West Street. 1863, 1865.  One of the Marlow pubs with the scantiest trace in records. ( "Three Tuns New Inn" is the Three Tuns in West Street, it having moved from the High Street. ) In 1863 the New Inn West Street is up to let with corn and coal trade/side business. Might the habit of calling the Three Tuns the New Inn have lasted that long? 

North Star, Queen's Road. 1868.  Closed 1871. 

Old Red Lion, Little Marlow. 1839.

Plough Inn, Little Marlow Road. Built 1854. Appears to have been built on site of earlier simple beer shop with an unknown name from circa 1825. Historic landlords and history here. (References to The Harrow public house in Marlow 1869 and 1872 have proven to be relating to the Plough, by cross referencing landlord and location information.)

Prince Albert, Chapel Street. 1838. List of landlords here. 

Prince of Wales, Mill Road. Can also be described as in South Place, Mill Lane and Platts Road! It is at the juncture of South Place and Mill Road, has previously been recorded as Mill Lane, Strong Beer Acre and Platts Road/Row. 1861. Landlord listing here.

Queen, Quoiting Square. 1833. This was renamed at some point between 1833 and 1841, the Queen having been previously the Three Loggerheads. Historic landlords listings here

Queen's Head, Marlow - 1660's.

Queen's Head, Well End / Little Marlow. Address variously described. 1889. But much older building.

Railway Hotel, Station Road. Built 1873/4. Now the Marlow Donkey. Landlord listing here, grave of landlady Sarah Ann Porter  here

Red Cow. 1843. Also one of these Wooburn Green. The separate existence of a pub of this name in Marlow is questionable, the only doubtful entry on this list. My research suggests the 1843 reference to the Red Cow in Marlow was a misplaced reference to the Wooburn Green business.

Red Lion, West Street AKA the Lion 1832. Not same as Olde Red Lion, Little Marlow. Sometimes called Red Lion Hotel. Image of pub and of the gravestone belonging to former landlady Priscilla Bowen here. Will of landlord Thomas Bowen senior here. Grave of Lester children (landlords offspring) here, landlord listing here

Rising Sun, Chapel Street. 1833. AKA The Sun beershop. There was an Old Sun, Lane End. List of landlords of Marlow one here

Roebuck, Causeway. 1754. Renamed the George Inn aka George and Dragon 1835. Landlords listed here

Rose and Crown,

1. "against Oxford Lane and the Quoiting Place" 1687.

 2. Dean Street,  1833+. Landlords here.

3. Coldmoorholm, Little Marlow. 1789.

Royal Exchange, Dean Street. 1860. But possibly from 1858.  Believe closed 1869 when John Langley was refused a full licence and opened the "newly built" Verney Arms a month later instead. Perhaps he originally intended to take the Royal Exchange name with him but decided on something more topical?  Landlords here.

Royal Oak

1.) Bovingdon Green. 1794 but certainly older. List of landlords 1794 - 1907 with some gaps here.

2. Dean Street 1833. Elizabeth Bowles. Initially thought to be a misinterpretation of the nearby Cherry Tree sign by the parish assessor of 1833, partly because Elizabeth Bowles is in possession and her family also have a long association with the Cherry Tree. However the Royal Oak appears to be further up, in the position later occupied by the Travellers Friend, not quite as far along as the Jolly Maltsters. Further research to follow. 

Royal Standard, West Street. 1869+ In the subdivided Albion House. AKA the Union Jack. Landlords here and more info here.

Sadler's Arms / Saddler's Arms, West Street. 1853. Landlord listing here, timeline history here

Ship Inn, West Street. AKA Olde Ship 1833 but much older building clearly long in use as inn although not necessarily under same sign. Said to have been built using ship timber, a claim found for many an old Marlow premises. A post on the Rimmel family of this pub was published on this blog here, landlord listing here, Biography of the Reeves who before they ran the pub were in charge of the workhouse here.

Six Bells, Quoiting Square. 1782. Small beerhouse. Will of landlord William Ward here. Landlords listing here.

The Star - 1867. Uncertain location. Could be the Star Of the Town below. See also the North Star. 

Star of the Town, looks an earlier name for the Carrier's Arms, Wycombe Road. May well have been inspired by the launch of Marlow built Star of the Thames too. 1865+

Swan, Causeway. 1831. List of landlords here.

Three Horseshoes 

1.) Gun Lane 1833. Closed 1852. Landlords and history here.

2.) Burrough's Grove. 1833. AKA The Horseshoes. Landlords here.

Three Loggerheads, Oxford Road. 1833. This, the Six Bells and Carpenter's Arms were all within a few doors of each other with the Crown and Anchor not much farther away not to mention the various pubs in West Street. Before Dean Street took over the mantle Quoiting Square was beer central for Marlow! I think that this became the Queen pub at some point between 1833 and 1841, most likely because of the coronation of Victoria. The Three Loggerheads was a joke pub sign seen elsewhere too. Loggerhead was a byword for a fool especially a stubborn one. The pub signs would show only two of them with the implication any unwitting person standing underneath it made the third. See the Queen for a link to landlords.

Three Tuns:

1.) High Street. 1695 (possibly 1683) Occupied at least two different locations-  first in the High Street before a relocation to West Street but probably actually three locations as it seems to have moved within the High Street before it went to West Street.

2.) West Street. By 1833. 

Landlord listings for both here

Traveler's Friend- Dean Street near corner of Spittal Street. It was also referred as the Traveller's Rest which is very confusing as there were two other pubs in Great Marlow area with that name. One in nearby Chapel Street and one in Wheeler End. THESE WERE NOT ALL THE SAME PUB. They were run by different breweries and had different tenants at the same time. The Dean Street pub curiously said to be behind another building at one point. It had an entrance by a back passage from Dean Street (the passage behind the Cherry Tree pub at the start of Dean Street which was forcibly stopped up later as it was believed to be used for criminal purposes). A post about this pub is available here and landlord listings here 

Traveler's Rest 1.) 

Chapel Street. 1846. Also a marine store. NOT THE SAME PUB AS THE TRAVELER'S FRIEND, though the Friend sometimes was accidentally given as the Rest, and the Rest as the Friend. The breweries which owned them were different. The proper name I have given to both in this post was as per how their breweries referred to them in Buckinghamshire Council Archives 1872 list of pubs owned in Marlow.  List of landlords here

Traveler's Rest 2.) Wheeler End. 1874.

Traveler's Rest 3.) Temporary name change for the Carpenters Arms 1843 when the outgoing landlord took the Carpenter's Arms sign with him and the new landlord thought he could not continue to use that name.

Two Brewers, St Peter St. 1750. See post on the unhappy marriage of Richard (the landlord) and Sarah Bye here. Landlord listing here

Turks Head AKA Saracen's Head, High Street. 1820. West Street side. Defunct by 1861. Exact location known. Some proprietors listed here

Union Jack see Royal Standard.

Verney Arms, Dean Street. Most likely 1869. For explanation and  landlord listing see here

Volunteer, West End [West Street but as stated to be quarter of a mile from the Red Lion then Henley Road feels more like an accurate address] On the Hand and Flowers side of the Road and very close to that location i.e within a couple of hundred yards. Next door but one to the Blue Banner]. Described as having been out of use for a little while in 1889. Attempts to resurrect it were unsuccessful. Biography of landlord Edward Hatton can be found here Landlord listing here

Waterman's Arms

 1.) St Peter's Street. 1851 but likely older. Historic landlords here

2.) Marlow Road, Bourne End. 1858.

Wheatsheaf, Station Road/ Strong Beer Acre/ Strong Beer Lane. Same location just different ways of giving the address. 1841. A post about the Way family of the Wheatsheaf is available here

Wheelwright's Arms, AKA the Wheelers Spittal Street. 1833. Landlord listing here

White Hart 1.) Chapel Street. 1732. A post about one of the families involved in this pub, the Chapple/Chappell family, can be found here And a list of landlords here

2.) Spittal Square. List of landlords here. At end of 1830s became almost certainly the Cross Keys.

White Horse 1.) West Street. 1755+ Several other mentions in the mid  1700s, a few in the 1780s and then again in the early 1800s but without a street address. Note that in 1792 Robert Boothby founded a charity for the poor to be paid out of a building near the Market House "FORMERLY the sign of the White Horse."  However there are mentions of a White Horse as a working pub after this-up to 1818 which means a change of location for the pub or as often happened a disused pub name being given to a new and unrelated premises.

2.) Property deeds relating to the Greyhound in Spittal Street which is first recorded by us under that name in 1819 say that it was previously known as the White Horse. This explains the early 1800s mentions of a White Horse with the mid 1700s references being for an earlier West Street business near the Market Place. 

White Lion, West Street. Was probably originally The Fox, if not very close to it. Fox was first recorded 1833, White Lion 1861 though I suspect it was operational in the 1850s. Forced to close 1909. Landlord listing here

Windmill Inn, Medmenham. Near church there.

Note:

PREMISES WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN

1.)There was a beer seller in a very old building in the churchyard demolished when the old church was knocked down in the 1830s. I can't find my note referencing this premise's name but it was none of those above.

2.)There was also it seems an early 1800s pub in Chapel Street (specific building known) of unknown name which closed by the late 1820s.

3.)William Plumridge had a pub in Cambridge Terrace in 1864. Probably the one that became the hospital.

4.) There was a tiny pub in West street in the 1830s and 40s whose close location I know but not the name of it. None of those above.

5.) Small pub in St Peter's Street converted from a cottage. This pub ran 1838-52. Long demolished.

With additional research by Kathryn. 

©Marlow Ancestors. If quoting from this original research please credit this blog and link here.

Old West Street Shops And Schools- not Borlase!

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

 The building on the left with the blue door was the site of Ann Washbourn(e)'s school for girls, giving both general education and specialist embroidery lessons from circa 1853. Ann was a real expert having been one of only two Marlow people in any profession to exhibit at the 1851 Great Exhibition. She showed children clothes which she had embroidered. In the school she was assisted by her sister Elizabeth. For a short time previously to this Elizabeth had been helping another sister of hers, Mary, to run a day school in the same premises. 

You can find out about other historic Marlow schools including other West Street ones in my special schools post here.

In 1860 a 12 year old girl, perhaps herself a pupil, stole capes and hats from the pupils in the school.

As well as for a school the premises were used by Ann Washbourn(e) as a Christian Knowledge book repository and reading room.

Ann died in 1879, Elizabeth in 1889. Their sister Margaret had a relationship with and later married John Morris of the Morris drapers family of Marlow. A post showing the location of their premises and giving information about them and Margaret is available here.

After the death of Elizabeth Washbourn the premises were run briefly as a school for girls by Mary Pinson.

Occupying the other half of that building as it appears today was a butcher's shop which later expanded to fill the whole. This will form a separate post, time permitting.

The brick building operating as Mandarin Stone at the time of this picture (November 2020), was the site of John Sadler's butcher's shop in the 1830s and 1840s before it became a stationery shop ran by young widow Caroline Anthony from circa 1851 until her death following a lingering illness aged just 38 in 1862. This property was owned by the Hammond family. From 1852 she too was running a school for girls. She also sold books and decorative wallpaper.

The premises were put up for sale in 1859, with the fact that it had an "occasional room" fitted up as a school one of the property's selling points  - along with a view over Quoiting Square. The rent was then £18 a year. The sale didn't effect Caroline's occupancy of the premises and she continued there until her death.

After that the contents of her house and business were sold including a pianoforte, mahogany and rosewood furniture and her school desks.*

Noah Bartlett had a grocery shop there by 1881 until after 1904 when two little boys stole a can of corned beef from out of his shop*. Noah was a member of the nearby Congregational church and supervisor of their Sunday School. His wife Ellen (née Coster) died in 1876 a little over a year into their marriage. However he seems to have remarried and had a family. Ellen is buried and has a visible gravestone in the graveyard of the church in Quoiting Square. See here for more posts related to the people of this church.

Later in Edwardian times Noah's premises became a cycle shop, one of at least two in West Street at the time. 

The white building further right was a shoe and boot makers and will also have it's own post in future.

©Image and text Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to reuse either if you wish provided you credit this blog.

I identify occupancy by cross referencing property papers and surveys, wills, censuses (though properties are sadly not usually visited in them in strict order), photographs, adverts, letters, court cases and anything else I can.

*Report of sale South Bucks Free Press over several issues August 1862. Copy held at the British Library. Accessed by me via the BNA November 2020.

*South Bucks Standard 30th September 1904. Accessed as above.

Also consulted: GRO death Index online, Great Marlow Parish registers my old transcription from the originals, 1851 Great Exhibition Catalogue.

Image provided by Kathryn. 

Clayton Arms - List of landlords

 This post is updated as new information emerges. 

1838 - J. Tyler (Joseph, former draper in Quoiting Square, possibly in the shop next door to the pub). Hosts dinner for more than 100 people in honour of Queen Victoria's Coronation this year. For more on the Coronation celebrations in Marlow, see here. Joseph was a liberal supporter. Sir William Robert Clayton was their frequent election  candidate in this era, he was also a substantial landlord. 

1839 - Joseph Tyler (served as umpire at Marlow cricket matches played on Alder Meadow mostly.) Starts a branch of the Royal Standard Benefit society. For information on the Slate Clubs and Benefit Societies of the Clayton Arms see the post here on poverty in Victorian Marlow. 

1847 - Jos. Tyler

1851 - Joseph Tyler died 24th March. Age 61. 

1853 - Elizabeth Tyler, wife of above.  Her first marriage was to William Lee. Biographical post on her is available here

1854 - Elizabeth Tyler

1858 - Elizabeth Tyler dies. 

1859 - Thos. Hall

1861 - Thomas Hall

1863 - Thomas Hall (and carrier)

1869 - Thomas Hall (and licenced to let horses and carriages). Gave evidence at an inquest when a man who came to hire a carriage to take him to Bourne End station fell down dead in the yard of the Clayton Arms. The man was a London based pianoforte tuner who had been visiting various houses in the area for his job. He died of natural causes it was found.

1871 - Thomas Hall (also carrier)  His wife Sarah died at the Clayton Arms aged just 32 in 1872. Thomas moved to the Coach and Horses in West Street later that year More here.

1875 - William Hall  advertised that he runs Hanson cabs, and other vehicles to hire from both the Clayton Arms and the Angel Inn, Maidenhead. Getting married? William can provide a suitable vehicle for the happy couple with strictly matching horses for smartness, in a choice of grey or bay. He also had a private omnibus and large waggonette available to hire, and offered horse clipping services too. 

1877 - Robert Hall

1878 - George Heslett

1879 - George Heslett transfers premises to William Clifford

1883 - William Clifford. In 1890 William escapes a fine for opening his beer house before the legally permitted time on a Sunday (12.30pm at the time.) He was only 15 minutes early in opening, which he put down to having a cheap unreliable watch! He had set it by the town clock that morning. The court considers his premises to have been otherwise well conducted. 

1892 - 1.) William Clifford

             2.) Charles Smart Mitchell. The 10 month old daughter of Charles dies at the Clayton Arms. Ruth Emily. 

1897 - C S  or W G Mitchell to W J Cross (holdover)

1898 Mr Cross to F Lester

1899 - Frederick William Lester, (Born Suffolk, his children born in London. Wife Eliza born Wembley. For the grave of the Lester children see here ). Eliza is a talented pianist and presides at the Clayton Arms piano during selected gatherings such as the Christmas Suppers of the Clayton Arms Slate Club. This was a huge affair with 150-200 members on average, providing life changing benefits for the working men who were members. You can read more about them and the Clayton Arms one in particular here

1903 - Frederick William Lester 

1906 - Frederick Lester. (Moves to Red Lion in 1909) 2. William John Steel

1907 - W J Steel 2. Arthur William (illegible last name) (Towers? Tovers?)

1911 - Arthur William Tavers   (Towers?)

1915 - Francis Thomas White. Summoned for selling watered down brandy that year.

1920 - Walter Sadgrove

1924 - Walter Sadgrove* See grave image below

1928 - Bertha Sadgrove

1939 - Mrs Annie Mabel Tilbury

Complied by Kathryn Day and Charlotte Day.

The grave of landlord Walter Alexander Sadgrove, landlord. "Alick" D. July 28 1926. (Grave in Marlow Cemetery)

Notes - 

We mainly focus on pre WW1 listings but sometimes list later names if it ties in with research we are helping with or something that interests us.

Use the Person Index option on the top drop down menu to search for all mentions of a person on this blog. Now over 6000 people are mentioned (Feb 2023)

For a full list of old pubs, inns, beerhouses of Marlow (more than 100 listed!) see this post here

Landlord listings for other Quoiting Square premises can be found here

Post about the raucous temperance meetings held outside the Clayton's can be found here!

Also check out the Pub Related option on the top drop down menu. 

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SOURCES

Numerous cross referenced wills, property deeds, and the like. 

Reports of licencing sessions, related court cases and general news reports from The South Bucks Standard, Bucks Herald and Windsor and Eton Express, held at the British Library and accessed via the BNA :

South Bucks Standard 27 December 1879, May 17, July 5 1895, as above

Kelly's Post Office Directory 1859, 1863,1869, 1877, 1903, 1915, 1939

1853 Mussons and Cravens Commercial Directory

Robson's Directory 1839

Census 1871, 1881. Transcribed from microfilm by Charlotte.

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Early Residents of Berwick Road Marlow

Berwick Road is not one of the older streets in Marlow in terms of being a residential address. But it did exist as a lane to the workhouse and to farm lands before any private homes were built there.

This post tells the story of some of the earlier residents of the road.

In 1909 scandal hit when Nellie Harvey, a married woman, was accused of "immoral conduct" with an unknown young man on Marlow Common. On the day in question she had claimed a sick headache and sent her children out to play while her husband was out at work.

James Belcher, landlord of the Chair Makers Arms pub in Dean Street Marlow spotted her, he claimed,  misbehaving with a man. This he told her husband John at his place of work- and people in the pub, and people in Market Square.

A furious Nellie sued him for substantial damages on a charge of slander.

This charge could only stick if the allegation wasn't true. Unfortunately for Nellie multiple witnesses disproved her statement that she had only gone out once for 5 minutes. One of her neighbours in Berwick Road Thomas Patterson, an insurance agent, was amongst those who saw her meet and go off with a young man who had arrived in the road by bicycle. Laura Allen of nearby Workhouse Lane (now Munday Dean Lane) was another witness whose testimony went against her. Laura said that the man walked with an arm around Nellie's waist.

Nellie's sons Henry and Francis gave evidence on the other hand in support for Nellie's statement that she had felt unwell and had not gone off away from home. Though out at play with their sister they said they did look in at home several times during the afternoon in question.

The jury (obviously with the judge's approval) found for James Belcher. He was awarded costs. The unfortunate Harveys moved away from Marlow.

Witness Thomas Patterson's wife later had her own day in court as a witness. She was amongst a number of Marlow housewives defrauded by a dishonest employee working at the Marlow Branch of the Co-Op in 1912. Money they paid off their grocery accounts was embezzled rather than credited to them.

The residents above were amongst the relatively few in Berwick Road in the Edwardian era. The area, historically known as The Berwicks, was largely agricultural and horticultural with meadows, small holdings and the town's parish allotments (established in 1886) predominant in the immediate vicinity. There were no houses in Seymour Court Road then. Another feature of the road in these early days was that a large number of the houses were given female names, such as Ruby Villas. In 1903 builder George Smith named Christina and Revina Cottages after his infant daughters, continuing this trend. These still bear the name of his little girls but the other homes in the road have generally lost their original monikers. The homes George Smith built were not perhaps as pleasant as their name suggested when they first went up. George was told off for allowing them to be occupied by the first residents before he had supplied them with adequate sanitation!  

It was some years before the street received any lighting.

Adding to the Berwick Road agricultural feel was James Price's horse dealership, a long term fixture there. In 1910 James was accused of allowing a work horse of his to be ill treated by an employee. He was acquitted.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

Related Posts:

Early history of nearby Seymour Court Road here

Chairmakers Arms list of landlords / history timeline here

Index to posts about other places in Marlow including Dean Street and the Workhouse in Munday Dean Lane here

To search for ancestors on the blog please use the Person Index option on the drop down menu. As of June 2022 over 6,000 people are mentioned.

See:

Buckinghamshire Examiner February 22nd 1909 copy at the British Library retrieved via the BNA. Accessed August 2020. [Harvey case]

Census my microfilm transcription.

Judicial research Jane Pullinger.

SEVENTY NINE Marlow Schools And Their Staff

Some of those listed will be the subject of their own biographical blog posts in the future.

Most early schools were conducted in the home of the owner-teacher with a room set aside as a school room but the very smallest establishments might not have even that. Boarding pupils do not on the whole seem to have come from very far away to go to Marlow Schools.

Schools and Educational Establishments to 1929:

Any dates given after school names are earliest and latest dates of known operation but are guidelines only as I don't necessarily have a source of information for every single year. THIS LIST IS NOT YET COMPLETE ONLINE. I have record of well over 80 educational establishments existing in Marlow before 1929. I have not included Sunday Schools.

For a post on the adult scholars of Regency Marlow and the very first Institution (teaching adults to read) see the post here

Albion House School - see Mrs Tylecotes. 

Ann Washbourn's School. West Street overlooking Quoiting Square Assisted by sister Elizabeth who had previously been the one running the school in the same premises with the help of another sister Mary. It seems a switch to specializing in skilled embroidery lessons alongside other subjects that pushed Ann rather than Elizabeth to the fore in the school. A few boys accepted but largely day school for girls. Later the site of Mary Pinson's school. See post published here a few weeks ago for a photo of the premises of Ann's school and more about her and it. 

Ann Winter's School. Ladies "seminary" boarding and day school. West Street 1855 -1864.  Offered a "polite education". Then Sycamore House, West Street from 1865 when it restyled itself as a school for young ladies and prep school for boys. Ann's husband William taught the boys. See Misses Winters school

Beech House School, Station Rd AKA Miss Sherrington's school. For girls with large garden, tennis courts and croquet lawn. 1888-94 then Miss Sherrington bought a larger school on the Isle Of Wight and removed herself and several of her teachers. Miss Burnham took over the Marlow premises until 1897. Note there was  a house called Beech Tree House also in Station Road which is not the school.  Formerly Downshire School (Q.V).

Bluecoat School. This or The Free School was the name used for most of history for the school we know now as Sir William Borlase Grammar School. Founded 1624 as a charitable school for boys by Sir William in honour of his dead son. Later boys could also pay to enter. Only the charity boys wore the distinctive blue coat uniform. Faced closure due to severe financial difficulties in the early 1880s but managed to overcome them and is now a co educational state school using in part the original 1600s buildings. West Street Marlow. Thomas Heather headmaster 1780, taking over from his dead uncle William. Rev Gore takes over 1793, Thomas Heather dying two years later. Mr Francis sacked as master 1835.  George Gale master on the 1841 census. Mary Gale, presumably his wife, living with him is described as a governess. Also see under National Schools for him. To read about the life at the school for boys in the 1830s-1850s see the post here

Borlase - see Bluecoat School

Bovingdon Green School- a little school not thought by Victorians to perform particularly well, largely because of the difficulty of not having enough pupils to warrant age based separation. But a favourite of the Higginson family who treated the pupils to outings and fun so probably the place to attend! No longer operational. Sir William Clayton gave land for the building of the school in 1866. 

British School 1853+. Marlow is long believed not to have had a so called British school (one set up under auspices of  British and Foreign Bible society to embrace non Church of England denominations) However news reports from 1853 describe a meeting organised by the Salem chapel to discuss setting up just such an establishment. More importantly fundraising had been ongoing for some time and so the school was due to open for boys the following month (March) in temporary premises, with girls to follow. Funds were being raised to erect a permanent building. The boys school did indeed open then, and the girls British school opened 1854. Both closed c1859 but this is subject to ongoing research by Kathryn. Overall history in Marlow here

Caroline Anthony's School. West Street. Caroline was also a bookseller and stationer. Next door to the Washbourne's school. 1852. See a photo of the premises and read more about Caroline here.

Chapel House School. 1881-82. For young ladies but also offered Prep for young boys. The establishment of Mrs Mather before she relocated to Kenton Villas in July 1882 after her husbands death. Mrs Mather was the wife of the Congregational minister. Chapel House is Aka The Manse. A biography of Minister William Morton Mather can be found here

Charlotte Corby's School. Over by 1853. Mentioned as something she had previously ran, in her father's will.

Clarke's School. Chapel Street. Boarding school for girls. Details sketchy. George Stevens 1896 memory of this school placed it in the 1840s in what was later called Prospect House, at the junction Wycombe Rd, Little Marlow Road, and Chapel Street with a brick wall that came to a point at that area. Note at the time the Prospect House name was used for another adjacent school, this one for young gentlemen, in what was later known as The Glade at Chapel End.  

Coles school - see George Cole

Convent School/ St Peter's Catholic School/ The Catholic Charity School. All one and same. Started 1845. Initially at Albion House West Street under the Sisters of Mercy. Located in premises  previously used as a private boarding school for girls (see Elizabeth Barnes below) but moved circa 1854 to St Peter's Street. There was a convent to the rear of St Peter's Church and its nuns, Sisters of St Paul, ran the schools to 1886. The Catholic School continued without them in St Peter Street after that. Considered unsanitary and not fit for purpose in 1910! Today St Peters school is in Prospect Road. Note: there was also a Convent School at Danesfield near Marlow run by the same nuns. Both under the patronage of Mr Scott Murray of Danesfield House.

Convent Higher School AKA St Peter's Higher School AKA Convent Upper School. St Peter's Street. Private day school for children of the wealthy on same site as the convent school for ordinary children. Miss Crowther head 1894. Art teacher then Frank Percy Wild. See my future post on Artists in Marlow History for more on him.

Coopers, Mrs School. Station Rd 1911. Later Mrs Violet Cooper and Florence Farmer run a girls school from Wellingrove, Station Rd 1926. 

Darlinghurst School. AKA Darlinghurst Academy. At Number 26 High Street from 1899 but in existence earlier in Chapel Street. Numbering has changed since so this 26 High Street then isn't 26 today.  Darlinghurst was the building previously used for first High Street post office and for the Field's school (Q.V) For girls, with a kindergarten. Shorthand amongst subjects taught. 1895-1908. Proprietor: Miss Aisbitt/Aisbett 1899. 

Dean Street National School. Mixed. Mistress from at least 1852 to at least 1863 Grace Hayes. Maria Robinson was another mistress and lived on the premises with her children 1861. Somewhat hidden from sight off Dean Street, Trinity Road side. 

Deanery School - see Woodman's School. 

Dial Close School, sometimes called Dial House School -private, The Causeway. 1929-1972. Not related to the house Dial Close on Winter Hill.

Downshire School. Chapel Street.  In operation by 1880 when Mrs Ellen Edmonds was head. Her daughter Miss Edmonds assisted her. Boarding for girls. Mrs Edmunds was formerly of Abbey Barn farm and emigrated to Australia. School moved to Beech House when Miss Sherrington took over Q.V Beech House School. Miss Aisbet in charge 1897. 

Eleanor Lord's Ladies School AKA Miss Lord's School. West Street, close to the turning for Quoiting Square 1833-42. Exact premises known and will be shown in a future post. Residential. Pupils on 1841 census are from age 7 upwards. Her sister Louisa assisted her in teaching. Eleanor left Marlow in 1842. Premises taken over by young Maria Dench by 1851 but there must have been someone else in between as Maria was too young to have been running things in 1842. Eleanor wrote a book called Modern Education in 1841, in which she cautions against providing knowledge "indiscriminately placed in the hands of the multitude".  This knowledge might become a means to remove the labourer from "their proper sphere of life" or cause a "levelling of that barrier which must in a well organised state always exist" between those in authority and the masses. 

Elizabeth Barnes' School. Probably a minor establishment. 1830s + Has 2 live in pupils, on the 1841 census. In subdivided Albion House West Street. Premises used 1848 plus for the Catholic School so Elizabeth was gone by then. 

Elizabeth Washbourne's Prep School. Old Vicarage, St Peter Street. 1844. Assisted by sister Mary. By 1852 moved to West Street. Shortly afterwards Elizabeth took second place behind another sister Ann at the school as it began to offer specialist embroidery training too- Ann's speciality. Became then known as Ann Washbourn's School. Q.V Ann Washbourn's School. 

Farmer and Coopers School. Station Road. 1911. Ran by Miss V Cooper and Miss Farmer. For girls.

Faulkner's School- see Great Marlow Academy.

Faux's Academy- circa 1757 to 1797. Boys. George Faux ran a popular and respected boy's school. His wife Ann was also involved. This school became the Great Marlow Academy, see below. To read more see this post here here

Freeman's School. AKA Miss Freeman's Boarding School. High Street,West Side. 1780s. On the site of what was later Wethereds brewery. 

George Cole's School- Chapel Street 1812+ Day school for boys. On site of what is now Liston Hall. George died 1834. Former instructor at the Royal Military College in West Street. 

Girls and Infant National School. St Peter's Street. Built 1869. Expanded in early 1900s with two new classrooms but still considered inadequate in size and facilities in 1910.

Gores School - Run by Rev H H Gore, who was also master at the Blue Coats school (now Borlase). He also took on private pupils or "young gentleman". 1793+ Offers to educate his charges with a view to them proceeding to a public school, university or trade. 

Gower's School. Run by Henry  Gower. Boys' boarding. Oxford Road 1787+. See also Mary Gower's School. Henry offers French, Latin, Greek etc. 

Great Marlow Academy. [Sometimes referred to as Great Marlow School which is the name of an unrelated modern school in Marlow]. Began as a school by 1757 as Faux's Academy, see above. Under the new name of Great Marlow Academy, proprietor Henry Terry was in place by 1818 and went bankrupt 1826 meaning all of his desks, and school books (300!) had to be sold. His premises, which were in Chapel Street at the junction of Wycombe Road / Little Marlow Road at what was later known as The Glade, were then refurbished and taken over by Mr Faulkner who used the same name for the school. His school was also referred to as Mr Faulkner's School. Boys' prep school. Had it's own playground 1833. Faulkner's son was assisting him by 1835. In 1838 William left and the school changed hands. It was reborn as the Prospect House Academy in Prospect House(q.v).  For more see here

Heather's Boarding School, at The Heathers, West Street for young gentleman 1770s+. At first carried on by William Heather with sister Jane taking care of the domestic arrangements for looking after the boys. William was also the master of the Free School (Borlase) but was allowed to take on private pupils independently providing it did not affect his work. On Williams death in 1780 his nephew and assistant master Thomas Heather took over at both the Free School and the private establishment with Jane continuing her role. Fees then 1 guinea entrance and £14 a year. 

Industrial School, 1831- at least 1861. Off Dean Street, Queen's Road side. Ran by the parish. Poor children trained to work. AKA Parish School Of Industry.

James Field's School. Day and boarding for boys. High Street 1823-33. He was also tailor and post master! See Matilda and Elizabeth Field's school below.

Jane Sime's AKA Syme's School. For girls. Seemingly a day school. High Street, West side of in former Lower Crown building. 1831-32. Jane was evicted by her landlord after she reported electoral fraud he was a party to. More on this and Jane in future.

Kenton Villa School For Young Ladies. Glade Road. Prep school ran by Mrs Mather after she relocated from Chapel House. July 1882 + 

Lace Making School. Charity school for local girls West Street founded 1624 by Sir William Borlase but did not operate as long, as funds from the Borlase charity were insufficient.

Leighton House School, Glade Road. Boys boarding school age 10-16 yrs, ran point by Miss Curtis who previously ran Misses Curtis' School Q.V. At Leighton House late 1883 till at least 1898. Classical education but cricket and football offered too. See here for more

Little Marlow National School. About to be opened in 1854. In 1920 the elementary school is described as a former Sunday school.

Lyle House School, Glade Road from at least 1898 to 1905 when it moved to Quarry Wood House, Station Road and changed name to Quarry Wood House School (Q.V) Girls. Emphasis on musical accomplishment. Boys prep department and later a kindergarten too. Boarders accepted but mostly day school. Had "branch" at Coralyn, Bourne End by 1903. Principal Miss Curtis 1899. Misses Reeves 1902+

Mearns school, short lived school ran  by Rev Andrew Mearns, congregational church minister (Quoiting Square) 1865-1866, boys boarding. A biography of Andrew Mearns can be read on the blog here 

Maria Dench's School. West Street. 1851. In same premises as previously used by Eleanor Lord (see). Boarding for girls. A number of her pupils came from abroad.

Marie Gough's Private School for Girls. Station Road 1911. Victoria Road 1915. Must have been a small establishment.

Marlow Place Academy. Boarding school for boys in Victorian era established after Thomas Mathews relocated from Prospect House (q.v) in 1857. The focus then became a little less prep and a little more towards preparing boys for a life commercial. The Mathews family left for Southall in 1865 but the house was later used by others as a boys' boarding school. Reverend Thomas Gwynn operated it in 1868 to at least 1870 while a Mr A.C Bartholomew had the school in 1875/6. It closed in 1877. Marlow Place was a large house in Station Road. It is now used as offices. The school had extensive grounds including a cricket pitch and was renowned for its young cricket teams. Will be the subject of its own more detailed post- now available here

Marlow Institute- offered adults technical, fitness and art classes. Held first lecture as Great Marlow Literary and Scientific institution in December 1853 at the Town hall. Classes as opposed to lectures featured more 1890+ in the new building, Institute Road. Post on the early days of the Institute here

Mary Gower's Preparatory School. Oxford Road. 1831-32. See also Gower's School which may have been run by a relative of Mary.

Mary Garland Lovegrove's Day and Boarding School for girls. West Street. She took over the premises from an unknown person in 1829. Ran till at least 1832. Will 1835 transcribed here. Seems to have ran the school with assistance of her mother Harriet. 

Mary Pinson's School. West Street. Took over the premises of the Washbournes but doesn't seem to have lasted long.

Matilda and Elizabeth Field's School, West Street. 1823- 41 as day school for girls. Schoolroom apparently a separate building out back. Probably the same as the Miss Fields School advertising as a boarding school for girls from c1814 - this earlier  establishment caters for only 6 pupils and had a twin establishment in Blackwater, Surrey also for 6 boarders. 1814 boarding fee 22 guineas per annum for board and instruction in  English and "fashionable needlework". This doesn't mean no other subjects were taught - they were most likely charged as an extra. The ladies will attend constantly to their charges "health, morals and instruction" they say. 

Medmenham Church of England School. Substantial improvement works circa 1894. New schools formally opened May 11 1894. Had hot air circulated in the cloak rooms to dry the children's coats on rainy days, a purpose built mess room and a paved playground, all highly unusual features for the day. Bitter disputes between the family who gifted the school to the parish and the vicar led to the school quickly shutting down but as the old buildings had been replaced the children had to be squeezed into the other remaining school there. I am uncertain as to whether the improved school ever reopened. Will be further researched. Kelly's Directory 1911 lists one mixed elementary school, built 1898, for 150 pupils. Mistress then Miss Jane Forrester, with average attendance of 64 pupils. 

Medmenham School- the other school, probably a National School. See above. Medmenham had two free schools by 1847, and both still there 1866. 

Misses Bond School. West Street. 1823. Two Miss Bonds, Elizabeth and Mary Ann were apprentice school teachers at Sophia Tylecote's ladies school in Albion House in first few years of 1800's and this may well represent the school they started up on completion of this. 

Miss Curtis' School -  Martha and Alice sisters run at Burford Farm 1881. At Cambridge House, Cambridge Road 1882-1883. Then moves to Glade Road, late 1883 and changed name to Leighton House Q.V ran by Martha Curtis, sister Alice assists with another teacher and live in servant 1891. Boarding for boys, age 6-12 years, boarding. See here

Misses Heath's School. Day and boarding for girls. Existed 1843. Listed Prospect Place 1844 but this seems an error. Not same as Prospect House Academy. All other sources give a West Street address. Said to be the largest and most prestigious ladies academy at the time. "Midway between the Crown and Quoiting Place". Listed as Miss Ann Heath Ladies School West Street in 1847 and 1852.. 

Miss Hides School, West Street. Jessie Hide- 19 year old schoolmistress living with her family in West Street 1891. Took in pupils herself in 1898, possibly earlier. "Prospectus sent on application". 

Miss Hobbs' School For Young Ladies. Recently taken over by Mrs Parker in 1814.

Misses Robinson's school. High Street 1834-35 (at least). Young boys' boarding school. For boys 4-10 years. 6 pupils only. Fee 20 guineas an annum including washing and mending. Conducted in their father's house. 

Mrs Davis's Ladies Boarding School 1784+. Albion House. Mrs Tylecote below took over her business in 1793 because Mrs Elizabeth Davis was ill. Mrs Davis promises to pay the strictest attention to the morals and education of her charges.  In 1789 Mrs Davis is one of subscribers supporting publication of "Sermons for Children". Price in 1784 - 14 guineas per annum. 

Mrs Gale's and Miss Mary Gales prep school West Street 1847. This is the wife of teacher George Gale of both Borlase and the National school.

Mrs Grant's School, West Street, prep. Mrs Grant leaves in 1848 after many years, due to "death in family"

Mrs George Trash's School. Boarding for girls. 1799.

Mrs Tylecote's School. Ran by Sophia Tylecote. A boarding school for girls. Giving a French education. 1793-1810 when school moved to Burton. Took over from Mrs Davis, see above. At Albion House, West Street. Aka Albion House School. 

Nashe(e)'s School. Okey / Oakey Nash, Revd and schoolteacher 1798. Moved from Marlow at some point after 1813. Later ran Manor House School in North End before becoming vicar of Throwley, Kent. He and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of artist Joseph Nash born in Marlow in 1808. Joseph was a pupil of Augustus Pugin no less. 

Misses Winters' school, West Street 1827, for young ladies. Probably became Ann Winter's school. Day and boarding. Misses Winter school for young ladies is listed 1865, at Sycamore House, West Street, in which year they decide to also open a prep school for young gentleman aged under 9 years. To be conducted separately from the girls school. Prices for boys will be £16 per year for boarders including dance instruction and laundry costs, 12s6d a quarter for day pupils. Singing, drawing and music lessons extra. 

National School. One existed by 1815 when pupils from it went to a church service in All Saints followed by refreshments in Crown Meadow.

National School Spittal Street. May be the one already existing in 1815. That school was said to be "near Chapel Street" 1831. George Gale then master. He left to be master of his own school in Chapel Street briefly then to left to run the Bluecoats school by 1841 but after 1833. Address later given more specifically as Spittal Street National School. On the Boots / Crown Lane side of the road. Probably not a purpose built building as it included stables let out to someone else. Maybe premises behind Crown utilised later. 

National School Quoiting Place / Oxford Lane, now Oxford Road. Infant school. Originally in Mr Washbourne's former baby linen warehouse, Quoiting Place later in a purpose built building. In 1844 ran by Henry and Jane Badger.  They replaced the previous sadistic teacher whose cruelty was objected to even by parents with Victorian ideas of discipline. Henry and Jane later ran Bisham School. Head 1852 Henry Heald. Seemingly rebuilt 1854 [this probably its first purpose built building]. Enlarged later. Annie Jane Badger mistress in 1863. The school building remains and is a language learning centre.

National School in Church Passage infant school. Mistress 1853 Frances Costar. Mistress Mary Keir 1863. 

National Boys School. Established 1851 according to proud contemporary reports but at least three "National Schools" already existed before then. Presumably they were the infant mixed schools?! The boys school in 1869 seems to be the National School said to be then in a new building in the High Street. (Causeway) Boys School said 1912 to be on the Causeway but about to move. Moved to Wethered Road 1913. In the latter location is now a mixed C of E middle school called Holy Trinity.

Night School- intended for working class men and youth. 1859-90 but possibly with gaps in existence. Was originally set up by the Vicar of All Saints who taught there with 2 curates and some friends, 3 evenings a week during winter months. In latter times at number 8 High Street, unknown location earlier. No 8 High Street then is not the same as no 8 today.

Parmer and Coopers (Misses) School for girls. Station Road. 1911.

Prospect House Academy. At Prospect House which stood at the junction of Chapel Street, Wycombe Road and Little Marlow Road. Established by 1757  -previously called the Great Marlow Academy and Faulkner's School. (Q.V). For young boys. Day and boarding.  Bought by Samuel Field Hooper 1838. His widow Elizabeth Hooper had it 1841. William Baker had the school in 1843. He had been working for Elizabeth Hooper previously. Thomas Mathews had the school by 1848. His wife was actively involved in the boy's care, taking the younger boys aged 6-9. They sold themselves on a home from home environment and the pretty rural location of the house (if it still stood now it would have a heavy main road right by it and the fields the Mathews looked out upon would be under bricks and mortar!). Mathews held an annual public exhibition of his pupils' technical drawings, maps etc. Outgrew the premises and moved to Marlow Place (q.v) in 1857.  For more see here and here, plus biography of their drill master here

Prospect House School- not to be confused with the Academy above, though in same premises. 1910. Day and boarding. School for girls and also  boys to prep level. Subjects included Domestic Economy, Cooking, Callisthenics and Home Nursing. Headmistress Miss Leddiard. Day pupils from 2 guineas a term (extras to pay for lessons in drawing, singing, languages, and music.) Boarders from £20 per annum. 

Quarry Wood House School, Station Road. The former Lyle House School (Q.V) after a 1905 relocation. Girls originally, also boys prep, to at least 1910.

Royal Military College Junior Department, at what is now Remnantz West Street 1802+ Not all of the original buildings survive. Boarding school for anyone who could pay for it with scholarships available for the sons of those who had been in military service. Intended to train them as future officers. Other sites were used to board the pupils in Marlow too. Not a happy place apparently for many of the young pupils, with several running away and others rebelling. There was persistent unease as to the suitability of the location and fitness of the education the pupils received. Will be the subject of a future post. Moved to Sandhurst.

Sharp's School. Tiny day school for boys ran by John Sharp, West Street (South side of) 1839-1852. John was also a boot and shoe maker! Had 6-7 pupils. 

Sir William Borlase Grammar School, see Bluecoat School.

Sneath's School. Ran by Mrs Sneath. 1770. Boarding school for young ladies. 

South Place Day School. 1861 South Place. Mistress Harriet Coster 1861. She was a teacher earlier but where is uncertain.

St Peter's Roman Catholic School, see Convent School.

Susan/Susannah Rolls' School. High Street 1823-45 in Brampton House. Day and Boarding for girls. Previously Susannah and Maria Roll's School. 1824- at least 1832. Unknown location then but may have been High Street as later.

Sycamore House School - See Ann Winters, above. 

Technical School. For adults. Without own premises. Under auspices of Kensington Museums. Used rooms in the Music Room, the Literary Institute and Borlase school. Taught French, carpentry, art and more. Included ladies classes. Also held classes at Lane End. 

 Turketts School, Mrs - in the sub-divided Albion House, in premises used at other times by Elizabeth Barnes, Sophia Tylecotes, Elizabeth Davies and the Convent for their respective schools. Girls boarding, small. 

Verney's School - started c late 1856, probably by the same Mr G Verney who had taught at the British School in the years before. Aims to give a "thoroughly sound business education" to the sons "of respectable farmers and tradesman."

Westbrooks School - run by the Misses Westbrook with Mrs Westbrook supervising the domestic arrangements. Set up in July 1850. Chapel Street. Mixed prep for girls and boys aged 5-12 years, day or boarding. "Strict attention to health, morals and improvement of the pupils entrusted to their care." Cost: 18 guinea per annum for ages 5-8, 20 guineas for those 8-12. Day pupils 4 guineas a year. Washing 2 guineas etc. Lessons for some accomplishments extra. 

Winters School - see Misses Winter and Ann Winter. 

Woodman's School. Boarding school at the Deanery St Peter's Street 1867-1872. Ran by William Woodman. AKA The Deanery School

Yates School - private boys school in Glade Road early 1880's. Run by former headmaster of the Bisham Schools John Yates, after he had resigned from that role. He could not make much success of the new school especially after the rival Borlase school was reorganised and given a new lease of life after suffering financial difficulties. He gave up teaching, built Gloucester Villa in Bisham and remained there until his death age 73. 

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 St Peter's Girls' and Infants school, built 1869 and extended. Photo ©Colin Groves and used with permission. 

Other School Staff Or Educational Professionals Not Already Mentioned:

Thomas Andrews schoolteacher 1798. Unknown School.

Mary Ann East,  Chapel Street 1841 census.

Alice Endall - age 24 schoolmistress living in West Street 1891.

Nicholas George - schoolteacher 1798. Unknown school.

Nathanial Hart- private dance instructor 1782-98. Originally from London. Ran schools in Wycombe and other places as well as Marlow and hosted a yearly ball at Marlow Town Hall to give his pupils an occasion to work up to. See here

Miss Elizabeth Hunt - Head Mistress of St Peters Street National Infants school. Received award for 40 years service in July 1909. See more here.

Edward Lysett. 1841.

Jane Maskell. A "public teacher" living with her parents Crown Lane 1851.

Miss Mather - Teacher at unspecified boys school. See also Mrs Mather above. 1883 Kelly's Post Office Directory. May be for Mrs Mather. 

Jane Newnham, National School 1976 Harrods Directory, 1881 census (Mistress of Oxford Lane infants). Lodger in the High Street.

John Southby- 2nd master at Borlase School, under Rev M Graves.

Emma Street. Assistant schoolteacher Dean street Infant school on 1851 census living with her aunt Grace Hayes who was the mistress in Dean Street. Age 15.

Miss Mary Tennant - Teacher at one of National schools 1854 Post Office Directory.

Miss H Thimblethorp - mistress of St Peters Street National Girls School. A Marlow hero who will be the subject of a separate post. 1883 Kelly's Post Office Directory. This was Harriet. See post about her here.

MR J.S Walters  - "third master" at Borlase under Rev. M Graves, 1883.

Alice Way- young assistant school teacher 1881 census. Unknown school. Her family will be the subject of a post on this blog later this year.

Robert A Williams - Master of Boys' National school 1876 Harrods directory 1883 Kelly's Post Office Directory.

RESEARCH SOURCES

I have been researching this since my teens- my sources run into the many dozens but some are:

Robson's Buckinghamshire trade directory 1839 provided by the University of Leicester on a no rights reserved licence. Also from them 1831 and 1844 trade directories. Later print copies of Kelly's guides.

My own census transcriptions from microfilm supplied by the LDS church at a Family History Centre.

Buckinghamshire Posse Commitas 1798 transcribed in the 1980s by Jane Pullinger. [Male schoolteachers in 1798]  Thanks Jane!

Private letters.

My own will transcriptions.

1833 Marlow property survey, the original notebook of this held by my family, transcribed by me.

Newspaper copies held at the British Library and accessed through the BNA September 2018-February 2021. Reading Mercury 5th Jan 1795, 10 June 1848, and 1st July 1848. Windsor and Eton Express 6th May 1826.  South Bucks Standard October 6th 1899, May 12th 1905 and 30th September 1910. Bucks Herald 17th December 1853. South Bucks Free Press 29th September 1865.

Reading Mercury July 6th 1850, January 10 1827, January 13 1835 as above. 

Harrods Commercial and National Directory 1876

Post researched and written by Charlotte Day. Additional research by Kathryn Day.

©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to use this information for family or local history research. If quoting from this research please link here so my sources remain credited correctly for the information they provided for me. Thank you. 

Remember to check back to this post as more schools and educators are listed.

To find other education related posts, see the General Marlow History post listing here