Updated by Charlotte October 2023
The Mint was also a lodging house.
Timeline:
1850- License first granted [Old Bucks County Council Archives]. However it occupied the site of the former Elephant and Castle beer house which was there by 1833.
1853 - William Brown. Fined 10s for opening during illegal hours this year.
1861- Emma Brown landlady. Lodgers include grocer Thomas Davis and his wife Emma.
1862- Pub described as having 4 bedrooms and 4 attics, a cellar, shop as well as the taproom and parlour plus out the back a yard, garden, water pump with "good water" and wood house.* It is in "a populous and much frequented neighbourhood". Emma Brown, widow is still the landlady. She was born Emma Clark in Marlow 1811 daughter of Richard Clarke of the Jolly Maltsters Dean Street. She was the widow of Thomas Bowles, with whom she had run the Jolly Maltsters across the road in Dean Street, and William Brown. By 1872 she had transferred to the nearby Cherry Tree pub and lodging house also in Dean Street. She died 1880. Mr Croxon had the lease until Lady Day 1865, and in theory had underlet it to William Weller but Emma Brown is indisputably the actual licensee. Sub letting possibly refers to the garden or outbuildings.
1864- Emma Brown has moved to the Cherry Tree nearby in Dean Street.
1871- Thomas Bowles, landlord. Son of Emma Brown above. He had moved to the Jolly Maltsters also in Dean Street by 1872 but returned to the Mint by the 1881 census. Wife Sarah.
1872- Thomas Bowles. 2. James Edwards (James went to many many pubs as temporary landlord to keep things going while permanent replacement for previous landlord was found)
1873- William Price landlord, taking over from James Edwards. Same year Charles Bowles charged with being in the beer house during illegal hours.
1881- Thomas Bowles back as landlord if not before.
1891- Thomas Stroud hauled to court after being found "drunk and notorious" in Dean Street 1891 after popping into the Mint for a drink or twelve. Thomas Bowles still landlord.
1905 - Thomas Bowles retired. It was said he had conducted business there for nearly half a century (ignoring his earlier brief departure) and done so in an "exemplary manner".
1905-8 Samuel Skinner landlord
1908 John Wiltshire. Property described as having 8 bedrooms. These must have been very tiny.
1912 Charles Bye Tillion. Wife Alice Jane. Charles had previously been a poulterer and tripe dresser in Spittal Square Marlow. In 1914 his lodger John Mason, a horse and dog dealer, arrested on the premises for an unspecified offence. When he was searched he was found to have several dozen letters in the right leg of his underpants (long ones of course in this era!) which incriminated him over a series of thefts of pedigree dogs. Jailed for 2 months or to pay a £10 fine instead. John had earlier that year escaped conviction for dog stealing at Reading on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The dog in question when brought into court dived into the witness box in joy at being reunited with his proper owner who was giving evidence there. John had lodged at the Mint for some months.
1919- Forcibly closed down in a district wide suppression of beer house numbers. Last landlord : Charles B Tillion. Mrs Tillion went to the magistrates to appeal against the loss of her family home and business without success. She and her husband moved to The Horns, Chapel Street.
* Advert South Bucks Free Press 18th July 1862. Copy held British Library and accessed via the BNA June 2020.
South Bucks Standard - 17 March 1905, as above
The Berkshire Chronicle, March 6, 1914. British Library Archives via the BNA.
Any census information: my transcription from microfilm images
Marlow parish registers, transcription from original books by Jane Pullinger.
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Posts about life in Dean Street and neighbouring streets here
More beer sellers than bakers -Temperance in Marlow here
Lists of posts about everyday life in old Great Marlow here
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