Address can be given as Mill Road / Lane or South Place - it's on the corner of the two. Occasionally it's given as Platts Row / Road which was a group of houses on the other side of Mill Road. Early records also refer to it as being in Strong Beer Acre / Lane (roughly the area about Station Road)
1861 - James Twitchen (wife Alice)
1864 - James Twi(t)chen "Strong Beer Lane"
1866 - James Twitchen. Premises comes fully licensed in September this year, having initially been refused year before. E.g gets spirit licence.
1869 - James Twichen/ Twitchen. James moved to the Royal Oak Bovingdon Green. See also Queens Head, Little Marlow.
1871- John Miller. Many barge hands lodged there at this period.
1872- John Miller "Prince of Wales Inn".
1875 - Cassandra Miller (nee Creswell, Cassandra was John's widow and married Felix Atkins) 2. Felix Atkins.
1880 - had windows broken in the 1880 election riot. See here for more information.
1886 - Cassandra died. See Cassandra's grave here
1887 - Felix Atkins "Platts Row" In this year Felix launched an action for slander against two individuals who accused him before many others of killing his wife. A juror was withdrawn for reasons I could not see and the case collapsed. It does not seem to have been revived.
1891 - James Rose (also carpenter).
1892 - J.C Read (see below too) 2. Robert Hawkins "Mill Lane"
1897 - James Rose. His wife Eliza Hannah died this year aged just 33. In the same year the couple lost an infant daughter. Eliza was said to have an obliging and courteous manner, and to be a devoted mother and wife. She died after a long illness, leaving 6 young children. James is a member of the Marlow Volunteer fire brigade. Hold-over given to George Brown.
1898 - George Brown transferred premises to J C Read (hold-over again). Later this year Johnathan Read went to the Red Lion (q.v)
1900 - John Cook Read again (hold-over) to Robert Hawkins again.
1901 - 1. Robert Hawkins. Around this time the Prince of Wales had one of the largest Slate Clubs in Marlow, an essential life support for many of Marlow's working class residents. To read more about them see the post here. It had 75-100 members on average.
1902 - upon Robert's death Mrs Alice Hawkins 2.) Edward Baldwin.
1903 Edward Baldwin. An Ex Sargent Major.
1907 - Norman George Clark who soon transferred to Benjamin John Cheese.
1909 - Benjamin John Cheese transferred to John Colbourn. John came from Acton, and got the licence by the skin of his teeth as he'd had a conviction for allowing gaming at a previous premises. He managed to produce a letter from the Acton magistrates stating that his character was otherwise good, which saves the day.
1910 - John Colbourn passed premises on to William Albert Robinson
1911 - Robert Mortis
1915 - Robert H Chambers
1920, 21 - Henry Baker
1939 - Arthur Banes
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© Marlow Ancestors.
SOURCES
Kelly's Post Office Directory 1863,1883, 1903, 1907, 1911,1915
Census - 1871, 1881, 1891. Transcription from microfilm by Charlotte.
Historic newspaper articles from the South Bucks Standard and Bucks Herald, held at British Library Archive and accessed via the BNA. -
South Bucks Standard - 20 May 1892, 22 Aug 1902, Reading Mercury 8 September 1866.
Numerous ads, licence hearing reports, property transactions, wills, court cases etc.
