The house immediately after the Baptist Chapel in Glade Road, if walking away from the railway station. On the side of the building a large "built 1884" plaque is unmistakable so it was erected the same year as the Baptist Chapel. A house on the other side of the road now called "Lime House" [number 1] is not the historic "The Limes".
Historic occupiers I can identify:
1890-91 John and Mrs Lily Mentor. John's tragic death by suicide is examined in Kathryn's post here.
1896 as summer renters and 1897-99 as actual residents= Conrad Dressler, sculptor and potter and his wife. Conrad was a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibitor's Society. He operated from Medmenham Pottery which expanded to a site at Marlow Common. Conrad and his wife moved to live nearer to it at Bovingdon Green. To read about trouble Conrad got into see " Artists In Marlow History" here.
1899 - Mrs Greenwood.
1900= house is again a seasonal holiday let.
1908= Alice and Henry Gray. This couple skipped about a bit in Glade Road, occupying various properties. Henry bought Clifton's stores grocery and off licence shop in the High Street early in 1902. This was on the corner of Institute Road. He had previously been manager of a similar shop in Staines but was of Marlow birth. His brother James was a mortgage broker / insurance agent based in the Old Vicarage in the High Street who soon came into the grocery business with Henry too.
1911-24 Mrs Moore.
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Sources Included:
Mapping the practice of sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow and HATII. http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk .Accessed 23rd October 2021.
South Bucks Standard 17th April 1891 and 22nd May 1896. British Library Archives copies.
Kelly's Directory of Bucks 1911 and 1924. Kelly's Directories Limited.
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