Our blog specialises in the period up to 1920. However we are making efforts to expand the blog to better include material we have gathered from the later 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s and 1960s. Not every post that mentions this time period is listed here, only those where the 1920s or later form a significant part of the post content. To look for all posts featuring any individual use the A-Z Person Index.
Posts containing the 1920s / 30s (or earlier) occupants of any individual named house, pub or farm are best searched for by looking at This Index. We will be working to expand any posts which currently are without 1920s or 1930s information so that they do have this. Many pubs and some farms have already had this information added to their timelines. We are also expanding some pub and farm posts into the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as time permits.
Grave photos and transcriptions, some with additional research, for those dying in the 1920s or 1930s as well as earlier can be searched on the Graves Index. At the time of writing there are posts showing the 1920s graves of 28 Marlow individuals plus 2 for Bisham and 3 for Hurley. For 1930s deaths we have 9 Marlow individuals (with another 2 due to be published this year, 2025) and 1 each for Bisham and Hurley. There are 8 graves from the 1940s, all in Marlow. We have more but we haven't had chance to upload them. There is a grave each for 1950s and 1960s Marlovians.
**The Wages in Marlow History post now includes Marlow Specific wage examples across many fields of work up to the 1960s** here
1920s Marlow
Recreated 1920s street directory for Marlow High Street Part One Part Two
Early house names (with some occupants) of Station Rise here
Kate Bailey murder Little Marlow here
Where Your Gardener Ancestor Worked post contains numerous entries linking 1920s gardeners to the houses they worked at here
Our historic cost of living in Marlow post has some 1920s Marlow specific prices and is being continually expanded to include more. Updates occur every month. Part one here and Part Two here
1930s Marlow
Life in 1930s Marlow Part One (covering homes, work and shopping) here.
Part Two covering sport, leisure and transport is here.
Part Three covering childhood and religion is here
The 1939 murder of Beatrice "Betty" Smith and other aspects of the early history of Seymour Court Road and Seymour Park Road here (contains some particularly distressing content).
Our historic cost of living in Marlow has 1930s Marlow-specific prices and is being continually expanded. Part One here. Part Two here
World War Two
WW2 in Marlow - preparations for the war and the first few weeks of it *UPDATED OCTOBER 2025* here, Part 2 covering 1940-41 here and Part 3 covering 1942-3 here. The 1944-45 period will follow in 2026.
War dead of the Congregational Church - list and short biographies here
Medmenham in WW2 here
Other 1940s Content
Marlow specific cost of living 1940s-60s homes, transport, food etc- here
1950s Marlow
Marlow specific cost of living for the 1940s-60s period homes, transport, food etc- here
During 2026 a series of detailed posts about life in 1950s Marlow will be published. If this era is of particular interest to anyone we can jig the posting schedule around and publish these posts earlier as they are already written.
1960s Marlow
Marlow specific cost of living for the 1940s-60s period homes, transport, food etc-here
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