Photos above- Visitors to this St Peter's Street pub, the Two Brewers, certainly liked to leave their mark. The earliest dated inscription we could find was from the 1840s.
Immediately above- this carving of names on a house in West Street is included for comparison. It was said to be a rite of passage, if a frowned on one, for Wethered boys to carve their first initials and those of their friends on the wall of this West Street property. Cadets from the Royal Military College also marked this wall. Sadly much of the original and oldest carving seems to have disappeared in the last 20 years along with the Victorian pull door bell which still worked in the 1990's.
Other carved names and initials were visible all along the 7 Cornered Alley in Marlow in the past but have disappeared as the brickwork has been replaced. Look for some of the older looking bricks and you may be able to make out some of the initials, dated from the 1940s+ while they are still visible!
Photographed November 2020.
See previous post The Unhappy Marriage of Robert and Mary Bye for a story about one of the historic landlords of the Two Brewers here.
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